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Really Quotes by David Foster Wallace
- Some words have to be explicitly uttered, Lenore. Only by actually uttering certain words does one really DO what one SAYS. 'Love' is one of…
- 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…
- But if you've really learned how to think, how to pay attention...it will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, loud, slow, consumer-hell-type…
- 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,…
- 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…
- In dark times, the definition of good art would seem to be art that locates and applies CPR to those elements of what's human and…
- The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to…
- Most really pretty girls have pretty ugly feet, and so does Mindy Metalman, Lenore notices, all of a sudden.
- 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…
- What the really great artists do is they're entirely themselves. They're entirely themselves, they've got their own vision, they have their own way of fracturing…
- What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really human [...] is…
- Footnote: 79) The anchor is gigantic and must weigh a hundred tons, and -- delightfully -- it really is anchor-shaped, i.e. the same shape as…
- 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…
- If you can think of times in your life that you’ve treated people with extraordinary decency and love, and pure uninterested concern, just because they…
- No wonder we cannot appreciate the really central Kafka joke: that the horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self whose humanity…
- [T]o really try to be informed and literate today is to feel stupid nearly all the time, and to need help.
- 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…
- This story ["The Depressed Person"] was the most painful thing I ever wrote. It's about narcissism, which is a part of depression. The character has…
- Please learn the pragmatics of expressing fear: sometimes words that seem to express really invoke. This can be tricky.
- Is it possible really to love other people? If I’m lonely and in pain, everyone outside me is potential relief—I need them. But can you…
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