"I was always either so unreasonably and pointlessly……" — David Foster Wallace
"I was always either so unreasonably and pointlessly happy that no one place could seem to contain me, or so melancholy, so sick and silly with sadness that there was no place I could stomach the thought of entering. I hated it here. And I have never been as happy as when I was here. And these two things together confront me with the beak and claws of the True."
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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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No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories.
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More Always Either Quotes
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My dad is a singer, so it was always either music or acting with me. All the way up through…
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Individuals who break through by inventing a new paradigm are almost always either very young men or very new to…
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In the course of the history of natural science, it always happens that profound or true thoughts or true facts…
— Wilhelm Reich
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Companies have never won. You're always either fighting for survival, or fighting for relevance.
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The questioning spirit is the rebellious spirit. A rebellion is always either a cloak to hide a prince, or the…
— Honore de Balzac
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My favorite driver is always either the bad guy or the underdog.
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In love, somehow, a man's heart is always either exceeding the speed limit, or getting parked in the wrong place.
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always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair they loved or they loathed, they…
— Nancy Mitford
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Vampires were always either trying to kill me, or own me. God I hated being popular.
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If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and…
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Every emotion started to feel the same. Everything started to be the same. Whenever I felt anything.. I was always…
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