"Mediocrity is contextual." — David Foster Wallace
"Mediocrity is contextual."
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David Foster Wallace
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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 Contextual Quotes
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one of 13 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Each feminist work has tended to be received as if it emerged from nowhere; as if each one of us…
— Adrienne Rich
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Only the heart knows the correct answer. Most people think the heart is mushy and sentimental. But it's not. The…
— Deepak Chopra
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[Women] tend to collect more pieces of data when they think, put them into more complex patterns, see more options…
— Helen Fisher
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The prima facie evidence provision in this case ignores all of the contextual factors that are necessary to decide whether…
— Sandra Day O'Connor
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I don't have a problem with 'Idol' or 'X Factor,' I have a problem with when those things are not…
— Billy Corgan
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Globalization requires taking a broad contextual and long-term view.
— Helen Fisher
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I do not mean to imply that television news deliberately aims to deprive Americans of a coherent, contextual understanding of…
— Neil Postman
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Education and the process of educating is a total integral, contextual situation which includes students, teachers, parents, administration and environment.
— Jean Houston
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Before 2000, everything was about being contextual, and buildings were supposed to be good citizens.
— Bernard Tschumi
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In a world lit by data, street corners are painted with contextual information, automobiles can navigate autonomously, thermostats respond to…
— John Battelle
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When I started Amos Content Group in 2009, I made a simple bet: our handmade, contextual, and authentic content will…
— Shawn Amos
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In the world of thought, there is no truth. Everything is relative, contextual, subject to more and more analysis.
— Kumar Anupam
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