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Ways 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…
- Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try to talk about…
- Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, movies where stuff blows up, loud parties - all…
- It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most "familiarity" is meditated and delusive.
- The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to…
- Like most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain ways about the objects and pursuits he's…
- In fact, the likeliest reason why so many of us care so little about politics is that modern politicians makes us sad, hurt us deep…
More Ways Quotes
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very… — Bashar al-Assad
- I don't think we are going to become extinct. We're very clever and extremely resourceful - and we will find ways of… — David Attenborough
- Please don't make the mistake of thinking that 'Oryx and Crake' is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool.… — Margaret Atwood
- One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best. — Jane Austen
- The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In… — Paul Auster
- I'm certainly not opposed to digital technology, whose graces I daily enjoy and rely on in so many ways. But I worry… — Diane Ackerman
- Living with anyone for many years takes skill. To keep peace in the household, couples learn to adapt to one another, hopefully… — Diane Ackerman
- Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he… — Sai Baba
- The amount of things I have been through and the remarkable ways in which the body has reacted is just phenomenal. No… — Amitabh Bachchan