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Tell Quotes by David Foster Wallace
- Of course, the fact that Dostoevsky can tell a juicy story isn't enough to make him great. If it were, Judith Krantz and John Grisham…
- Fiction becomes a weird way to countenance yourself and to tell the truth instead of being a way to escape yourself or present yourself in…
- 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…
- I'd tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear
- Tell them there are no holes for your fingers in the masks of men. Tell them how could you ever even hope to love what…
- 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…
- Boo, I think I no longer believe in monsters as faces in the floor or feral infants or vampires or whatever. I think at seventeen…
- ...the sun would leave my sky if I couldn't assume you'd simply come and tell me you were sad.
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