"I'm very bright, but I'm terrified of sounding……" — David Foster Wallace
"I'm very bright, but I'm terrified of sounding like someone who thinks he's very bright-because those people are assholes."
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303 Quotes by David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace has 303 quotes on this site.
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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 Assholes Quotes
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one of 133 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The best thing about living at the water's edge: You only have assholes on three sides of you, and if…
— George Carlin
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My job consists of basically masking my contempt for the assholes in charge, and, at least once a day, retiring…
— Kevin Spacey
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I knew it... I'm surrounded by assholes!
— Mel Brooks
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My dad used to tell me 'opinions are like assholes, everybody has one'
— Miley Cyrus
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In all my years here, I don't think I've ever seen quite so many assholes gathered in one place!
— The Undertaker
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I've only been an asshole to assholes!
— Harlan Ellison
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The Devil got landed with a shitty job, he has to deal with assholes everyday, he's probably bored as hell.
— Gerard Way
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You try to make the world a better place and what does it get you? I mean, Christ, how the…
— Daniel Clowes
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Assholes tend to stick together, and once stuck are not easily separated.
— Robert I. Sutton
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Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one.
— Mike Dirnt
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I’ve made my life’s work spotting assholes. And you know, I think it’s harder now than ever before because there’s…
— Merrill Markoe
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And what can we do to silence these Christian athletes who thank Jesus whenever they win, never mention his name…
— George Carlin
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