"...the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often……" — David Foster Wallace
"...the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about."
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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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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over…
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We have the hardest working people in the world, the most adaptable and the most congenial to employ.
— Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
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The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
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The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
— Joan Baez
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Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.
— Abu Bakr
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In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
— Lucille Ball
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Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.
— Drew Barrymore
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In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external…
— Saint Basil
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The hardest part of anything is making a dish consistently great - you order it seven years later, if it's…
— Mario Batali
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I was one of the hardest-hitting conservatives on George W. Bush. Republicans didn't like me on George W. Bush. Republicans…
— Glenn Beck
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What's hardest for me to swallow is when there is a love story, say, with a really high-profile male star…
— Halle Berry
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Having a baby is one of the most wonderful things in your life, as well as the hardest thing in…
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