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Personal Quotes by David Foster Wallace
- Both destiny's kisses and its dope-slaps illustrate an individual person's basic personal powerlessness over the really meaningful events in his life: i.e. almost nothing important…
- There are no choices without personal freedom, Buckeroo. It's not us who are dead inside. These things you find so weak and contemptible in us---these…
- That as people age, accumulate more and more private experiences, their sense of history tightens, narrows, becomes more personal? So that to the extent that…
- ... it takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak.
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- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster
- This airline is grateful for his extensive contributions and we will miss his friendship and support. We extend our deepest sympathies to… — Gerard Arpey
- I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my… — Isaac Asimov
- We have a way of dealing with information that has sort of personal - personally identifying information in it. But there are… — Julian Assange
- If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security, even if… — Margaret Atwood
- The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle. — Marcus Aurelius
- I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive. — Peter Ackroyd
- High-level, big-deal publicity has a way of getting old for me, but what never fails to thrill me is when I make… — Joseph Barbera
- Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example. — Robert Baden-Powell
- I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large -… — Julianna Baggott
- No one owns you. One hundred per cent of the stock in your personal corporation belongs to you. — George Matthew Adams
- James Stewart was so kind and considerate and had such personal integrity. — Brigitte Bardot