Quote by David Foster Wallace Download Open image ““You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between.”” — David Foster Wallace ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between. Try to learn.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“We are all broken, but sometimes the jagged pieces fit together nicely.” — Paul Acampora Copy Share Image
“There are so many things that can break you if there's nothing to hold you together.” — Katja Millay Copy Share Image
“We are all broken in one way or another. It's how we put those pieces back together that matters".” — Maggi Myers Copy Share Image
“We are all a little broken, looking for something whole to hang on to. But sometimes, what seems whole is even more broken than… — J.A. ANUM Copy Share Image
“Maybe I was still broken and would always be-but now, at least, I was piecing myself back together, lining up one jagged edge at… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
“I'm not broken. I'm shattered. I'm a million tiny pieces that would take longer than forever to piece back together.” — Sandi Lynn Copy Share Image
“Broken things can be made whole again. Perhaps not as they were before, but maybe stronger this time.” — Carrie Ryan Copy Share Image
“None of us is less fragile than the other; we simply shatter in different places.” — Sheldon James Martin Copy Share Image
“We're broken. It's like we have all these jagged edges that scare other people off, but when we're with each other, our jagged edges… — Sarra Manning 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
