"I had four hundred thousand pages of continental……" — David Foster Wallace
"I had four hundred thousand pages of continental philosophy and lit theory in my head. And by God, I was going to use it to prove to him that I was smarter than he was."
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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.
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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 Continental Quotes
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Housing associations have fingered the fact that they cannot use their assets as liquidity due to Bank of England rules…
— Vince Cable
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God bless my father, but he always spoke in this continental, literary accent, probably because he was a professor of…
— Nicolas Cage
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While no man in his right mind would advocate sending our ground forces into continental China, and such was never…
— Douglas MacArthur
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The time has come when we must proceed with the business of carrying the war to the enemy, not permitting…
— George C. Marshall
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That we can now think of no mechanism for astrology is relevant but unconvincing. No mechanism was known, for example,…
— Carl Sagan
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A kiss on the hand may be quite continental, But Diamonds are a girl's best friend.
— Unknown Author
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A new theory is guilty until proven innocent, and the pre-existing theory innocent until proven guilty ... Continental drift was…
— David M. Raup
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In the 21st century, hundreds of millions-and eventually billions-of human beings will transform their buildings into power plants to harvest…
— Jeremy Rifkin
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Now is the seedtime of continental union, faith and honor. The least fracture now, will be like a name engraved…
— Thomas Paine
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I think the thing about Anne Boleyn is there is an exotic quality to her. This is a woman who…
— Natalie Dormer
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On the Glass-Steagall thing, like I said, if you could demonstrate to me that it was a mistake, I'd be…
— William J. Clinton
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I became the first ever Euro-continental champion in WWF history. Well, besides D-Lo Brown, but he doesn't count.
— Kurt Angle
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