"I don't want to hurt myself. I want…" — David Foster Wallace
"I don't want to hurt myself. I want to stop hurting."
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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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Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is…
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People still question my sobriety, my commitment to the program, and that hurts. I take things day by day, and…
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People that go through what I went through and people going through divorce, it's really a difficulty process; it's heartbreaking…
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Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
— Francis Bacon
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There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of…
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I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try…
— Erykah Badu
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I'm a complete human being. I'm very emotional and loving. I feel, I hurt, I give, I take, and also…
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It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you're finished and…
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A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.
— Pearl Bailey
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Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts.
— Lucille Ball
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When I was a kid, I would do stupid things on my bike. I'd jump any ramp, I'd jump over…
— Eric Bana
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My fingers used to hurt really bad when I played guitar. I stopped because of it.
— Tyra Banks
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