"I want to tell you,' the voice on……" — David Foster Wallace
"I want to tell you,' the voice on the phone said. 'My head is filled with things to say.' ... 'I don't mind,' Hal said softly. 'I could wait forever.' 'That's what you think,' the voice said. The connection was cut."
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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 Connection Quotes
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Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of…
— Saint Augustine
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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
— Gaston Bachelard
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Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.
— Martha Beck
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Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become…
— John Berger
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Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.
— Ambrose Bierce
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My favorite albumn ever is Jeff Buckley's GRACE. I feel a weird unexplainable connection to him.
— Rachel Bilson
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Being around people with whom you feel a connection, on many levels, not just a professional one, is very relaxing.…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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The fact that I am blind is not what defines my life. It should be of no more interest than…
— Andrea Bocelli
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I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word 'fair' in connection with income tax policies.
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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As connected as we are with technology, it's also removed us from having to have human connection, made it more…
— Sandra Bullock
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Half of my family has a deep-rooted connection to the South and Louisiana, and for me, New Orleans is one…
— Sandra Bullock
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It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play…
— Leo Buscaglia
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