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Little Quotes by David Foster Wallace
- Kafka's evocations are, rather, unconscious and almost sub-archetypal, the little-kid stuff from which myths derive; this is why we tend to call even his weirdest…
- I felt, as I became a later and later bloomer, alienated not just from my own recalcitrant glabrous little body but in a way from…
- The sound of wind had become, for me, silence. When it went away, I was left with the squeak of the blood in my head…
- Literary fiction and poetry are real marginalized right now. There's a fallacy that some of my friends sometimes fall into, the ol' "The audience is…
- The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to…
- What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of at…
- Mary had a little lamb, its fleece electrostatic / And everywhere Mary went, the lights became erratic.
- My whole life I've been a fraud. I'm not exaggerating. Pretty much all I've ever done all the time is try to create a certain…
- In fact, the likeliest reason why so many of us care so little about politics is that modern politicians makes us sad, hurt us deep…
More Little Quotes
- No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. — Aristotle
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen
- The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little… — Frank Abagnale
- When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made… — J. J. Abrams
- Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next… — Neil Armstrong
- Banks are so protected from liability they would have to really do something that was their mistake in order for them to… — Frank Abagnale
- If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. — Isaac Asimov
- Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings! — Mackenzie Astin
- Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a… — Rowan Atkinson
- In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don't really need to explain very much at all - you just say he's… — Rowan Atkinson