"Not that that mystical stuff's necessarily true: The……" — David Foster Wallace
"Not that that mystical stuff's necessarily true: The only thing that's capital-T true is that you get to decide how you're going to try to see it."
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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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It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by…
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I'd like to give zero out capital gains tax and zero out the dividends tax, zero out alternative minimum tax,…
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The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures,…
— Honore de Balzac
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Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove…
— P T Barnum
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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of…
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I've always defined myself not as a cartoonist , but as an entrepreneur. That was true before I tried cartooning.…
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Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.
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No one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama's plan will see one single penny of their tax raised, whether…
— Joe Biden
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Over the objections, where they sound like squealing pigs, over the objections of Romney and all his allies, we passed…
— Joe Biden
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We will rebuild, renew and remain the capital of the free world.
— Michael Bloomberg
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