Innocent Quote by David Foster Wallace Download Open image “There are very few innocent sentences in writing.” — David Foster Wallace ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Innocent Sentences Writing
The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent. — Juan Goytisolo Copy Share Image
The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
There are no innocents. There are, however, different degrees of responsibility. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My Lord, it is a very hard sentence. For my part, I am the innocentest person of them all, only I have been sworn… — William Kidd 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
A garden has a curious innocent way of consuming cash while all the time you are under the illusion that you are spending nothing. — Esther Meynell Copy Share Image
My political views have never made me insensitive to the pain and suffering caused to the innocent victims of events such as the Warrington… — Claire Fox Copy Share Image
Antidepressants are the biggest fraud in the world. Number one, Prozac gives you a royal soft-on like you wouldn't believe, and number two you… — Robert Evans Copy Share Image
I have clearly said we faced terrorist enemies who use Islam to justify slaughtering innocent people and we have to stop them and we… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Make no mistake: conversion therapy is not about 'praying away the gay.' It's an emotional torture against our most innocent citizens: our children. — Gavin Newsom Copy Share Image
I don't like small birds. They hop around so merrily outside my window, looking so innocent. but I know that secretly, they're watching my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You're lying through your fangs," Iggy accused. Fang tried to play innocent--but "innocent Fang" is an oxymoron, so it didn't work. — James Patterson Copy Share Image
If you're going to exude naivete, you can't really... walk out there like it's a Sting show. You can't be that well put together… — Frank Black Copy Share Image
I was born in Tyrone, 1956, for something I didn't do. I was innocent. But they gave me life. I still remember the midwife… — Kevin McAleer Copy Share Image
To be innocent is to bear the weight of the entire universe. It is to throw away the counterweight. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
We face a brutal enemy who will kill the innocent for one purpose and that is to gain control of the Middle East and… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind's most basic duty to protect… — James T. Walsh Copy Share Image
