"If Realism called it like it saw it,……" — David Foster Wallace

"If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it."

— David Foster Wallace

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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.
One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough…
God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though-and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who…
When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional…
Under fun's new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you…
Of course, the fact that Dostoevsky can tell a juicy story isn't enough to make him great. If it were,…
Some words have to be explicitly uttered, Lenore. Only by actually uttering certain words does one really DO what one…
You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing- your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky…
Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare…
No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories.
Molly Notkin often confides on the phone to Joelle van Dyne about the one tormented love of Nokin's life thus…
No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.

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No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have… — Francis of Assisi
Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the… — David Attenborough
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I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated… — Chinua Achebe
No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games. — Wystan Hugh Auden
The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the… — Saint Augustine
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God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us… — Teresa of Avila
The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are… — Teresa of Avila

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