Quote by David Foster Wallace Download Open image ““Real rebels, as far as I can see, risk disapproval.”” — David Foster Wallace ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Rebels usually have something to complain about, and if they don't they make it up. All too often the really disadvantaged are in no… — Paul Collier Copy Share Image
“Real rebels, as far as I can see, risk disapproval. The old postmodern insurgents risked the gasp and squeal: shock, disgust, outrage, censorship, accusations… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“I've always been attracted to stories about rebels - things that are unusual and sometimes dangerous.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“It happened that at the late age of twenty-seven I had run away from home. High time, you might say; but rebels can't always… — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
“True rebels hate their own rebellion. They know by experience that it is not a cool and glamorous lifestyle; it takes a courageous fool… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“actively rebel against those forces that have pushed you away from your true path.” — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“But always there was the voice at the back of his head telling him that by joining the Rebellion he’d become less of a… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
“It isn't the rebels who cause the troubles of the world, it's the troubles that cause the rebels.” — Carl Oglesby Copy Share Image
“those who will defend authority against rebellion must not themselves rebel.” — J. R. R. Tolkien 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
