"It's like a fugue of evaded responsibility." — David Foster Wallace

"It's like a fugue of evaded responsibility."

— 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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I think along the way, as we treat nature as model and mentor, and not as a nuisance to be… — Amory Lovins
For nothing is so hard to hear as that which is half known, and evaded. One never denies so hotly… — Susan Glaspell
I know some say, let us have good laws, and no matter for the men that execute them: but let… — Patrick Henry
What is drawing? Not once in describing the shape of the mass did I shift my eyes from the model.… — Auguste Rodin
Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure… — Mark Twain
A superficial freedom to wander aimlessly here or there, to taste this or that, to make a choice of distractions,… — Thomas Merton
The bee himself did not evade the schoolboy more than she evaded me, and even at this day I still… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson
There exists no more repulsive and desolate creature in the world than the man who has evaded his genius and… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded. — Benjamin Disraeli
I could have evaded the FBI a lot longer if I had been able to control my passion for hacking. — Kevin Mitnick
For all the tough talk about China during the presidential debates, Romney and Obama evaded any mention of China's suspect… — Ai Weiwei
A thing there was that mattered; a thing, wreathed about with chatter, defaced, obscured in her own life, let drop… — Virginia Woolf

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