"life's endless war against the self you cannot…" — David Foster Wallace
"life's endless war against the self you cannot live without."
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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 Cannot Live Quotes
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Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
— James A. Baldwin
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My soul is not my own any more. I cannot live like I want to. I am going to give…
— Brigitte Bardot
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Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours,…
— P T Barnum
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One cannot live on potatoes alone. It is said that one wants bread with potatoes. And when there's no bread,…
— Sholom Aleichem
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Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become…
— Thomas Aquinas
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A holy life does not live in the closet, but it cannot live without the closet.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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It is not healthy when a nation lives within a nation, as colored Americans are living inside America. A nation…
— Pearl S. Buck
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Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.
— Cecil B. DeMille
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We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.
— Edward Dahlberg
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Sin and the child of God are incompatible. They may occasionally meet; they cannot live together in harmony
— John Stott
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Without ships, we cannot live.
— Winston Churchill
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You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
— Dallas Willard
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