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Word Quotes by David Foster Wallace
- Everything gets horrible. Everything you see gets ugly. Lurid is the word. Doctor Garton said lurid, one time. That's the right word for it. And…
- To be, in a word, unborable.... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot…
- The key is the ability, whether innate or conditioned, to find the other side of the rote, the picayune, the meaningless, the repetitive, the pointlessly…
- I felt despair. The word’s overused and banalified now, despair, but it’s a serious word, and I’m using it seriously. For me it denotes a…
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- If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word. — Margaret Atwood
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- I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly. — Paul Auster
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- A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of. — Burt Bacharach