"sarcasm and jokes were often the bottle in……" — David Foster Wallace
"sarcasm and jokes were often the bottle in which clinical depressives sent out their most plangent screams for someone to care and help them."
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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 Bottle Quotes
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I think love can come fairly easily and grow - but really liking the core essence of someone is a…
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A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
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I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and…
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I continue to work on plays, but I've always felt that you could put a note in a bottle and…
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I have six-year-old fans that weren't even around for 'Genie in a Bottle' or even 'Fighter.'
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I look like the kind of guy who has a bottle of beer in my hand.
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To me, I think people who don't think it's a big deal to toss a plastic bottle in the garbage…
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I always run in the morning on an empty stomach, and I'll go through a bottle and a half of…
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If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,'…
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Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.
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I absolutely relate to being alone in squalor, trying to come up with something adequate. I relate to that, and…
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On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there's no real work to be done,…
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