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David Foster Wallace has 310 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.
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One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner…
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God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though-and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who wants to…
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When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional content (i.e.,…
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Under fun's new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you don't want…
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Of course, the fact that Dostoevsky can tell a juicy story isn't enough to make him great. If it were, Judith Krantz…
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Some words have to be explicitly uttered, Lenore. Only by actually uttering certain words does one really DO what one SAYS. 'Love'…
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You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing- your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about…
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Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try…
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No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories.
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Molly Notkin often confides on the phone to Joelle van Dyne about the one tormented love of Nokin's life thus far, an…
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No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
— John Berger
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No doubt science cannot admit of compromises, and can only bring out the complete truth. Hence there must be controversy, and the…
— Rudolf Virchow
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Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value.
— Bertrand Russell
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Of all the things that can have an effect on your future, I believe personal growth is the greatest. We can talk…
— Jim Rohn
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Nothing happens without personal transformation.
— W. Edwards Deming
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion. The industrial society ... recognises nothing except the power…
— John Berger
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People have pointed out evidences of personal feeling in my notices as if they were accusing me of a misdemeanor, not knowing…
— George Bernard Shaw
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A person without self-expression is a person without personal freedom.
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Even in the world, the yogi who faithfully discharges his responsibilities, without personal motive or attachment, treads the sure path of enlightenment.
— Mahavatar Babaji
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The enemies of living life; outdated little liberals, afraid of their own independence; lackeys of thought, enemies of the person and freedom,…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
— Sydney J. Harris
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There are no choices without personal freedom, Buckeroo. It's not us who are dead inside. These things you find so weak and…
— David Foster Wallace
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