"If you've never wept and want to, have…" — David Foster Wallace

"If you've never wept and want to, have a child."

— David Foster Wallace

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303 Quotes by David Foster Wallace

David Foster Wallace has 303 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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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Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I… — Asia Argento
I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild… — Margaret Atwood
As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child,… — Diane Ackerman
Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a… — Gaston Bachelard
I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center… — Michele Bachmann
In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar… — Enid Bagnold
A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. — James A. Baldwin
There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of… — James A. Baldwin
Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing. — Honore de Balzac
What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended? — Honore de Balzac
When I gave birth to my fourth child, I suffered from post partum hemorrhaging. I almost lost my life. I… — Joyce Banda
It's not like I want to hop on a bandwagon, because I said it 15 years ago - bringing a… — Tyra Banks

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