"The truth will set you free. But not……" — David Foster Wallace
"The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you."
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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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Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
— Richard Bach
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It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you're finished and…
— Red Adair
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I wanted to be a mechanic. When I was 14 I wanted to quit school and go work on my…
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I race historic muscle cars back in Australia, and that's my hobby. And I try to race home as soon…
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By the time I finished comedy, I was really burnt out of it. I had had enough. I don't really…
— Eric Bana
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In five years' time I'd like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitely…
— Adele
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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished'…
— John Berger
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A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist's own needs; a 'finished' statue or canvas is…
— John Berger
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To be a good actor... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to…
— Sarah Bernhardt
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I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished…
— Bill Brandt
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
— Edmund Burke
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