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Thing 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…
- You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing- your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about fiction writing; a…
- Probably the most dangerous thing about college education, at least in my own case, is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get…
- There is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness.
- In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships.…
- The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.
- The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.
- To be a mass tourist, for me,...is, in lines and gridlock and transaction after transaction, to confront a dimension of yourself that is as inescapable…
- Bliss—a-second-by-second joy and gratitude at the gift of being alive, conscious—lies on the other side of crushing, crushing boredom. Pay close attention to the most…
- Not that that mystical stuff's necessarily true: The only thing that's capital-T true is that you get to decide how you're going to try to…
- 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…
- In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the…
- There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And an outstanding reason for choosing…
- That sometimes human beings have to just sit in one place and, like, hurt. That you will become way less concerned with what other people…
- 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…
- This is how I feel, I can't name it straight out but it seems important, do you feel it too?-- this sort of direct question…
- I miss everyone. I can remember being young and feeling a thing and identifying it as homesickness, and then thinking well now that’s odd, isn’t…
- How promising you are as a Student of the Game is a function of what you can pay attention to without running away. Nets and…
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