Ambivalent Quote by David Foster Wallace

“The fragility of the veneer of civilization astonished him. Yet we take it for granted because, being born into it, we have no other…

— Thomas DiMauro

“He was one of those people whose ideas are too lively to be confined in their brains and spill out into the world to…

— Susanna Clarke

“The man who articulate the movements of his inner life, who can give names to his varied experiences, need no longer be a victim…

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

“He was not ill-fitted to be the head and representative of a community which owed its origin and progress, and its present state of…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“He might be fifty years old, and would have looked young for his age, had not constant work hardened his features, and given him…

— Anthony Trollope

“Maybe he didn't want that life after all, starting over broke, hailing a cab in a busy intersection filled with jockeying junior executives, arms…

— Don DeLillo

Disregarding the fact that I am old enough to be [Walter] Schellenberg's mother, I would feel nauseated to be coupled with a man whose…

— Coco Chanel

“He used to wonder at the shallow psychology of those who conceive the ego in man as a thing simple, permanent, reliable , and…

— Oscar Wilde

“He was sometimes stern but more often kindly---just according to his lights, but he saw the world in simple shades of black and white,…

— John Christopher

A body - physical, astral, dead - might be treated as an object, might be adored and hated. So this story has emerged from…

— Malgorzata Szumowska

Insofar as the theorist wins, therefore, by constructing an increasingly closed and terrifying machine, to that very degree he loses, since the critical capacity…

— Fredric Jameson

“He wasn't a complete human being at all. He was a tiny bit of one, unnaturally developed; something in a bottle, an organ kept…

— Evelyn Waugh