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Say Quotes by David Foster Wallace
- When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional content (i.e., the verbal information…
- It was when I was the age where you can, as they say, "hear voices" without worrying that something is wrong with you. I "heard…
- Are we not all of us fanatics? I say only what you of the U.S.A. pretend you do not know. Attachments are of great seriousness.…
- I read," I say. "I study and read. I bet I've read everything you read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries. I wear out…
- 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…
- I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.
- The Sophists had this idea: Forget this idea of what's true or not—what you want to do is rhetoric; you want to be able to…
- Like most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain ways about the objects and pursuits he's…
- Psychotics, say what you want about them, tend to make the first move.
- I'll say God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I'm not crazy about. I'm pretty much anti-death. God looks by all accounts…
- My bones are ringing the way sometimes people say their ears are ringing, I'm so tired.
- I cannot say what color Lenore Beadsman’s eyes are; I cannot look at them; they are the sun to me.
- I read,' I say. 'I study and read. I bet I've read everything you've read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries. I wear out…
- I want to tell you,' the voice on the phone said. 'My head is filled with things to say.' ... 'I don't mind,' Hal said…
- K--: 'When they say "I am my own person," "I do not need a man," "I am responsible for my own sexuality," they are actually…
- 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…
- You are what you love. No? You are, completely and only, what you would die for without, as you say, the thinking twice.
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