"I am concentrating docilely on the question why……" — David Foster Wallace
"I am concentrating docilely on the question why U.S. restrooms always appear to us as infirmaries for public distress, the place to reagain control."
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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 Always Appear Quotes
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"Pieces" almost always appear 'as parts' in whole processes. ... To sever a "'part" from the organized whole in which…
— Max Wertheimer
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In vain do we seek tranquility in the desert; temptations are always with us; our passions, represented by the demons,…
— Baron de Montesquieu
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No instance exists of a person's writing two language perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Time and again, in every market cycle I have witnessed, the extremes of emotion always appear, even among experienced investors.…
— Michael Steinhardt
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These funerals always appear to me the more indecent in a populous city, from the total indifference of the beholders,…
— Karl Philipp Moritz
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When you allow circumstances beyond your control to determine your attitude and actions, you risk plunging into a downward spiral…
— Nick Vujicic
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Forms of expression always appear turgid to those who do not share the emotions they represent.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Left to Tell reminds us that we are all sons and daughters of God; that with faith, miracles will always…
— Colette Baron-Reid
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The legislator is an indispensable guardian of our freedom. It is true that great executives have played a powerful role…
— J. William Fulbright
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Remember the enemy of all painting is gray: a painting will almost always appear grayer than it is, on account…
— Eugene Delacroix
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Possibly the only good to come out of these nightmares was that it brought Hans Hubermann, her new papa, into…
— Markus Zusak
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The most important truths always appear first as blasphemies or obscenities. That's why every great innovator is persecuted. And the…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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