"It can become an exercise in trying to……" — David Foster Wallace
"It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art."
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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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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her…
— Jane Austen
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I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm…
— Diane Ackerman
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I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way…
— Richard Bach
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A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity,…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Norway or Switzerland are two marvelous countries, I very much admire, the most advanced countries in the world in fact…
— Jose Manuel Barroso
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The leaders who we admire who have been able to bring great change in the past - Gandhi, Martin Luther…
— Dennis C. Blair
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I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.
— David Bowie
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.
— Charlotte Bronte
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Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of…
— Geraldine Brooks
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Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it…
— Samuel Butler
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