"Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw…" — David Foster Wallace
"Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it."
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303 Quotes by David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace has 303 quotes on this site.
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We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.
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One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough…
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God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though-and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who…
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When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional…
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Under fun's new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you…
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Of course, the fact that Dostoevsky can tell a juicy story isn't enough to make him great. If it were,…
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Some words have to be explicitly uttered, Lenore. Only by actually uttering certain words does one really DO what one…
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You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing- your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky…
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Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare…
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No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories.
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Molly Notkin often confides on the phone to Joelle van Dyne about the one tormented love of Nokin's life thus…
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No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.
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More Claw Quotes
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one of 61 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
— Wislawa Szymborska
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Nature, red in tooth and claw.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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I have always tempered my killing with respect for the game pursued. I see the animal not only as a…
— Fred Bear
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Nothing can be more depressing than to expose, naked to the light of thought, the hideous growth of argot. Indeed…
— Victor Hugo
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If anyone tells you that you can't achieve your dreams, or puts you down, make your hand into a claw…
— Lady Gaga
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Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw.…
— Victor Hugo
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The Goddess is not separate from the world – She IS the world, and all things in it: moon, sun,…
— Starhawk
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I get a lot of teenagers going, 'Yo, Krueger,' and honking their horn and giving me the claw. Yeah, I'm…
— Robert Englund
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The EPA, the Gestapo of government, pure and simply has been one of the major claw-hooks that the government maintains…
— Tom DeLay
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People who claw their way to the top are not likely to find very much wrong with the system that…
— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. Germination includes the hatching of a meteor…
— Victor Hugo
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Although random mutations influenced the course of evolution, their influence was mainly by loss, alteration, and refinement... Never, however, did…
— Lynn Margulis
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