"Almost nothing important that ever happens to you……" — David Foster Wallace

"Almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it."

— David Foster Wallace

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303 Quotes by David Foster Wallace

David Foster Wallace has 303 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.
One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough…
God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though-and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who…
When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional…
Under fun's new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you…
Of course, the fact that Dostoevsky can tell a juicy story isn't enough to make him great. If it were,…
Some words have to be explicitly uttered, Lenore. Only by actually uttering certain words does one really DO what one…
You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing- your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky…
Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare…
No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories.
Molly Notkin often confides on the phone to Joelle van Dyne about the one tormented love of Nokin's life thus…
No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.

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I think that what's perceived as punk out in shopping malls or in chain stores or on MTV has almost… — Jello Biafra
Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character… — Giacomo Casanova
If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing. — Marc Chagall
What do I miss about the UK? Sadly, almost nothing. Maybe the midnight sun, in June in the north. That's… — Lee Child
As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children,… — V.S. Naipaul
Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want — John Cage
Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about. There is almost nothing you can say… — Roy Lichtenstein
And after your death, when most of you for the first time realize what life here is all about, you… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing. — Antonio Porchia
My picture of the world is drawn in perspective and not like a model to scale. The foreground is occupied… — Frank P. Ramsey
The objective of our religious foundations is to teach people that they are hurting themselves when they say they believe… — John Templeton
Jesus is a mythical figure in the tradition of pagan mythology and almost nothing in all of ancient literature would… — Dennis McKinsey

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