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Me Quotes by David Foster Wallace
- When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional content (i.e., the verbal information…
- Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, movies where stuff blows up, loud parties - all…
- The point is that petty, frustrating crap like this is exactly where the work of choosing comes in. Because the traffic jams and crowded aisles…
- 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…
- I was never the sort of child who believed in "monsters under the bed" or vampires, or who needed a night-light in his bedroom; on…
- The fact that the most powerful and significant connections in our lives are (at the time) invisible to us seems to me a compelling argument…
- If you're automatically sure that you know what reality is and who and what is really important-if you want to operate on your default-setting-then you,…
- Probably the most dangerous thing about college education, at least in my own case, is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get…
- You don't have to think very hard to realize that our dread of both relationships and loneliness ... has to do with angst about death,…
- Fiction, poetry, music...these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated.
- For me, boviscopophobia is an even stronger motive than semi-agoraphobia for staying on the ship when we're in port.
- One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion could be more horrible than solipsism.
- I read," I say. "I study and read. I bet I've read everything you read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries. I wear out…
- I have filled 3 Mead notebooks trying to figure out whether it was Them or Just Me.
- 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…
- To be a mass tourist, for me,...is, in lines and gridlock and transaction after transaction, to confront a dimension of yourself that is as inescapable…
- I never, even for a moment, doubted what they’d told me. This is why it is that adults and even parents can, unwittingly, be cruel:…
- It's all very confusing. I think I'm very honest and candid, but I'm also proud of how honest and candid I am -- so where…
- The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die.
- I believe I want adult sanity, which seems to me the only unalloyed form of heroism available today.
- Am I a good person? Deep down, do I even really want to be a good person, or do I only want to seem like…
- But the young educated adults of the 90s -- who were, of course, the children of the same impassioned infidelities and divorces Mr. Updike wrote…
- And I was -- this is just how I was afraid you'd take it. I knew it, that you'd think this means you were right…
- To experience commitment as the loss of options, a type of death, the death of childhood's limitless possibility, of the flattery of choice without duress-this…
- I cannot say what color Lenore Beadsman’s eyes are; I cannot look at them; they are the sun to me.
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- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale