"That what appears to be egoism so often…" — David Foster Wallace
"That what appears to be egoism so often isn't."
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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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Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in…
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
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An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a…
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Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to…
— Francis Bacon
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I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.
— Arthur Balfour
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Something very significant appears to be happening in America. There is a dramatic shift in voter affinity toward the GOP,…
— Bob Beauprez
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In fact, when care appears, unconditional love often vanishes.
— Martha Beck
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To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
— Joseph Addison
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Isaiah is by far the finest and least objectionable of the seventeen prophets whose supposed productions form the latter part…
— Annie Besant
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Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes…
— Ambrose Bierce
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The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least…
— David Brainerd
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