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Moments Quotes by David Foster Wallace
- No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.
- The lives of most people are small tight pallid and sad, more to be mourned than their deaths. We starve at the banquet: We cannot…
- Dr. Ambrose himself told Mark Nechtr...that the problem with young people, starting sometime in about the 1960s, is that they tend to live too intensely…
- There's a kind of Ah-ha! Somebody at least for a moment feels about something or sees something the way that I do. It doesn't happen…
- 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:…
- The truth is that the heroism of your childhood entertainments was not true valor. It was theatre. The grand gesture, the moment of choice, the…
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- Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them. — John James Audubon
- A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. — Jane Austen
- It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed… — Jane Austen
- Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever. — Paul Auster
- Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our… — Paul Auster
- When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to… — Teresa of Avila
- What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of… — Sai Baba