Quote by David Foster Wallace Download Open image ““Everything I’ve ever let go of had claw marks on it.”” — David Foster Wallace ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I had to claw back into the world, dig in no matter if my nails cracked and bled, hold on with everything I had.” — Tarun Shanker & Kelly Zekas Copy Share Image
“That's why she keeps her nails long, she says, to be able to scratch and claw.” — Jerzy Kosiński Copy Share Image
“I knew the marks were never going to disappear. They were always there. Permanent in the deepest sense of the word.” — Keary Taylor Copy Share Image
“I was supposed to be powerless, and as a result they failed to see that I possessed claws.” — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
“Eventually, I managed to peel it off, bit by bit, scratching at each piece until it was finally gone.” — Francesca Martínez Copy Share Image
“Sometimes there’s no shame in running away from our problems. Especially when your problems have sharp fangs and claws to match.” — Kat Kruger Copy Share Image
“And I’d have you know, through all of it, I still had perfect nails! Because I am completely swell.” — Sarah Scheele Copy Share Image
“I'm just glad you didn't get you greedy little claws on the OTHER sketchbook. THAT would have been embarrassing.” — Michelle Hodkin Copy Share Image
“You remind me of a little fuzzy kitten, all claws and no bite.” — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
“I felt more solidly composed, now that I was horizontal. I was impossible to knock down.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“We all have our little solipsistic delusions, ghastly intuitions of utter singularity: that we are the only one in the house who ever fills… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“It's no accident that in a bureaucracy getting fired is called 'termination,' as in ontological erasure.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Footnote: 79) The anchor is gigantic and must weigh a hundred tons, and -- delightfully -- it really is anchor-shaped, i.e. the same shape… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“The paradoxical intercourse of audience and celebrity. The suppressed awareness that the whole reason ordinary people found celebrity fascinating was that they were not,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“I am coming to see that the sensation of the worst nightmares, a sensation that can be felt asleep or awake, is identical to… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“He cranks the condo’s AC way down at night and still most mornings wakes up soaked, fetally curled, entombed in that kind of psychic… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“To me, at least in retrospect, the really interesting question is why dullness proves to be such a powerful impediment to attention. Why we… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“If you’re subjected to enough great salesmen and salespitches and marketing concepts for long enough—like from your earliest Saturday-morning cartoons, let’s say—it is only… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Why is the truth usually not just un- but anti-interesting?” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“She almost reminds the engineer of certain types in high school whom everyone adored because you sensed it made no difference to them whether… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
To be, in a word, unborable.... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
