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Various Quotes by David Foster Wallace
- Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, movies where stuff blows up, loud parties - all…
- Some persons can give themselves away to an ambitious pursuit and have that be all the giving-themselves-away-to-something they need to do. Though sometimes this changes…
- American experience seems to suggest that people are virtually unlimited in their need to give themselves away, on various levels. Some just prefer to do…
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- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of… — Saint Augustine
- American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. — James A. Baldwin
- The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the… — William Bartram
- We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's… — Arnold Bennett
- Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important… — Warren G. Bennis
- Among the various vernaculars that are spoken in different parts of India, there is one that stands out strongly from the rest,… — Annie Besant
- I have learned to interface - what I think would be the contemporary term - with various different lexicons, and people speak… — Bono
- In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and… — Edward de Bono
- Direction coupling between the various radiations generated in a nuclear reaction both with one another and with the initiating radiation can also… — Walther Bothe
- I do not have a merchandise line. I don't sell knives or apparel. Though I have been approached to endorse various products… — Anthony Bourdain