Quote by David Foster Wallace Download Open image ““You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between. Try to learn.”” — David Foster Wallace ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Any brute can break something. It takes finesse to mold and shape it to your own desires.” — Kate Avery Ellison Copy Share Image
“Either find a way, or make one....You can bend but you can never break if you want to achieve excellence.” — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
“I never mastered anything. I am damaged. Broken. And I always will be.” — Christine Fonseca Copy Share Image
“We are all broken, but sometimes the jagged pieces fit together nicely.” — Paul Acampora 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
“Sometimes you don't understand how broken you are until you put all the pieces together, cutting your fingers on them, realizing that enough shards… — Laura Tims 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
