"...loneliness is not a function of solitude." — David Foster Wallace
"...loneliness is not a function of solitude."
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David Foster Wallace
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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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More Function Quotes
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Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by…
— James A. Baldwin
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I'm walking this walk, and my life has nothing to do with my perception of the world. It's all God!…
— Stephen Baldwin
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Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid.
— Dave Barry
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I'm just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone…
— Drew Barrymore
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Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
— Charles Baudelaire
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In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or…
— Michael Behe
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To me, it really seems visible today that ethics is not something exterior to the economy, which, as technical matter,…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of…
— Arnold Bennett
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Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.
— Corrie Ten Boom
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Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic…
— Andrea Bocelli
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This kind of overall way of thinking is not only a fertile source of new theoretical ideas: it is needed…
— David Bohm
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A corporation is organized as a system - it has this department, that department, that department... they don't have any…
— David Bohm
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