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Mean Quotes by David Foster Wallace
- Molly Notkin often confides on the phone to Joelle van Dyne about the one tormented love of Nokin's life thus far, an erotically circumscribed G.W.…
- At root, vulgar just means popular on a mass scale. It is the semantic opposite of pretentious or snobby. It is humility with a comb-over.…
- I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art.
- It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience.
- Lucky people develop a relationship with a certain kind of art that becomes spiritual, almost religious, and doesn’t mean, you know, church stuff, but it…
- In the broadest possible sense, writing well means to communicate clearly and interestingly and in a way that feels alive to the reader. Where there’s…
- It’s a very American illness, the idea of giving yourself away entirely to the idea of working in order to achieve some sort of brass…
- And make no mistake: irony tyrannizes us. The reason why our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying is that an…
- 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…
- Learning how to think" really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough…
- Perhaps this is what it means to go mad: to be emptied and to be aware of the emptiness.
- We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come back - I…
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- Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence. — Aristotle
- Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures. — Aristotle
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- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
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- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams