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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 a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
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The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these…
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To a small child, the perfect granddad is unafraid of big dogs and fierce storms but absolutely terrified of the word "boo."
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When a mother asked her small child how he fell out of bed, he answered, "Because I wasn't in far enough." Let…
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A small child from a developing country has the advantage, from a very early age, of having access to toys which structure…
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Exclamation points are the most irritating of all. Look! they say, look at what I just said! How amazing is my thought!…
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There is something very intriguing about, for example, the sense of accomplishment that a small child has, which you might be able…
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