"Everything in my own immediate experience supports my……" — David Foster Wallace
"Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe, the realest, most vivid and important person in existence."
—
David Foster Wallace
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
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.
See all 303 quotes by David Foster Wallace »
More Absolute Quotes
This quote is filed under Absolute Quotes,
one of 1,809 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become…
— Giorgio Armani
-
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
— Lord Acton
-
A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity,…
— Mikhail Bakunin
-
But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and…
— Mikhail Bakunin
-
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
— Henry Adams
-
What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially…
— Dave Barry
-
No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath…
— Bruce Barton
-
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point…
— Simone de Beauvoir
-
It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas…
— Simone de Beauvoir
-
The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
— Sarah Bernhardt
-
The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
— Aneurin Bevan
-
Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.
— Theodor Adorno
See all 1,809 Absolute Quotes »