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David Foster Wallace has 310 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.
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One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner…
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God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though-and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who wants to…
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When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional content (i.e.,…
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Under fun's new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you don't want…
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Of course, the fact that Dostoevsky can tell a juicy story isn't enough to make him great. If it were, Judith Krantz…
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Some words have to be explicitly uttered, Lenore. Only by actually uttering certain words does one really DO what one SAYS. 'Love'…
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You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing- your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about…
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Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try…
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No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories.
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Molly Notkin often confides on the phone to Joelle van Dyne about the one tormented love of Nokin's life thus far, an…
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No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.
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As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the face.
— Edith Piaf
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The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in…
— H.G. Wells
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I remember nothing of this, no ambulance rides, nothing. Nothing between switching out the bedside lamp and the sudden indignity of rebirth:…
— Stephen Fry
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Embrace change, even when the change slaps you in the face.
— Walter Breuning
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These are clothes my friends and I could wear. This ain't Prada. I don't want to be one of those celebrities that…
— Nicky Hilton
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Basketball players want contact to get a foul called. Slaps on the wrist and bumps on the shoulder are big time to…
— Warren Moon
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Critical words to a child are as painful and damaging as being physically hit. They are verbal slaps in the face. Usually,…
— Beverly Engel
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With charm you’ve got to get up close to see it; style slaps you in the face.
— John Cooper Clarke
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Sometimes I have wished my insults were slaps or lashes; I've wanted to hit people in the face and make them see,…
— Evita Peron
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See, Josh, that's what you do when someone slaps you in the face. So the next time it happens to you, try…
— CM Punk
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The man with a host of friends who slaps on the back everybody he meets is regarded as the friend of nobody.
— Aristotle
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I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.
— Anne Stevenson
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