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Point Quotes by David Foster Wallace
- 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…
- I submit that tennis is the most beautiful sport there is and also the most demanding. It requires body control, hand-eye coordination, quickness, flat-out speed,…
- The point of books is to combat loneliness.
- Everything gets horrible. Everything you see gets ugly. Lurid is the word. Doctor Garton said lurid, one time. That's the right word for it. And…
- But if I decide to decide there’s a different, less selfish, less lonely point to my life, won’t the reason for this decision be my…
- Say the whole point of love is to try to get your fingers through the holes in the lover's mask. To get some kind of…
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