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Think Quotes by David Foster Wallace
- The point is that petty, frustrating crap like this is exactly where the work of choosing comes in. Because the traffic jams and crowded aisles…
- But if you've really learned how to think, how to pay attention...it will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, loud, slow, consumer-hell-type…
- I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art.
- I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the…
- You don't have to think very hard to realize that our dread of both relationships and loneliness ... has to do with angst about death,…
- I don't think writers are any smarter than other people. I think they may be more compelling in their stupidity, or in their confusion.
- I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility…
- What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is 'all it does' - is discerning what large numbers of people think they…
- 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…
- Whatever you get paid attention for is never what you think is most important about yourself.
- 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…
- 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…
- It's all very confusing. I think I'm very honest and candid, but I'm also proud of how honest and candid I am -- so where…
- The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die.
- And I was -- this is just how I was afraid you'd take it. I knew it, that you'd think this means you were right…
- If you can think of times in your life that you’ve treated people with extraordinary decency and love, and pure uninterested concern, just because they…
- she committed suicide by putting her extremities down the garbage disposal-first one arm and then, kind of miraculously if you think about it, the other…
- You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.
- Learning how to think" really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough…
- 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…
- 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…
- My worst character flaw that I'm conscious of is that I tend to think my way into circles instead of resolving anything. It's paralyzing and…
- 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…
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