"I have filled 3 Mead notebooks trying to……" — David Foster Wallace
"I have filled 3 Mead notebooks trying to figure out whether it was Them or Just Me."
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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 Figure Quotes
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We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure…
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I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
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It is vital that there is a narrator figure whom people believe. That's why I never do commercials. If I…
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I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'
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Sarah Palin is a compelling political figure.
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I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I…
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I'm a woman who has gone through many heartaches, enough to dedicate my whole life to trying to figure them…
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No one can figure out your worth but you.
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I always figure hey, look, I'm not a rock star, I'm an actor. I'm somebody who's meant to be other…
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But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while…
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It's a character that I always found really likable. I'm fond of Zorro because he was a popular figure who…
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We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out…
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