"For those who've never experienced a sunrise in……" — David Foster Wallace

"For those who've never experienced a sunrise in the rural midwest, it's roughly as soft and romantic as someone's abruptly hitting the lights in a dark room."

— David Foster Wallace

303 Quotes by David Foster Wallace

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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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Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove… — P T Barnum
Paleontologists had long been aware of a seeming contradiction between Darwin's postulate of gradualism, confirmed by the work of population… — Ernst Mayr
The experiment left no doubt that, as far as accuracy of measurement went, the resistance disappeared. At the same time,… — Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
The fact remains that, if the supply of energy failed, modern civilization would come to an end as abruptly as… — Frederick Soddy
All across the world, ...increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate… — Barack Obama
MSNBC has abruptly ended their relationship with Keith Olbermann, and according to his contract he's not allowed back on television… — Conan O'Brien
Then we are assured by Sartre that owing to the final disappearance of God our liberty is absolute! At this… — Wyndham Lewis
We would never move forward in the face of negative emotion. There are many people who would teach you otherwise.… — Esther Hicks
In my childhood, America was like a religion. Then, real-life Americans abruptly entered my life - in jeeps - and… — Sergio Leone
Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger, and the more alien the stranger, the stronger the… — Andrew Solomon
Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger, — Andrew Solomon
Other seasons come abruptly but ask so little when they do. Winter is the only one that has to be relearned. — Verlyn Klinkenborg

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