"Lucky people develop a relationship with a certain……" — David Foster Wallace
"Lucky people develop a relationship with a certain kind of art that becomes spiritual, almost religious, and doesn’t mean, you know, church stuff, but it means you’re just never the same."
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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 Almost Religious Quotes
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I'm fanatical about sport: there seems to me something almost religious about the fact that human beings can organise play,…
— Simon Gray
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We must ask whether our machine technology makes us proof against all those destructive forces which plagued Roman society and…
— Robert Strausz-Hupe
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Work is life for me, it is the only point of life-and with it there is almost religious belief that…
— Laurence Olivier
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We either have wild places or we don't. We admit the spiritual-emotional validity of wild, beautiful places or we don't.…
— Ansel Adams
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As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals --or, indeed, why it…
— Rose Macaulay
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Ballet really lends itself to that because there's such a sense of ritual, with wrapping the shoes every day and…
— Natalie Portman
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Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is…
— William James
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That,' he said, with almost religious fever, 'was the coolest thing you have ever done. In fact, that may have…
— Mira Grant
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I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the…
— Dan Millman
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Something new has taken place in the past five to eight years. Technologists are providing almost religious visions, and their…
— Unknown Author
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