"This might be one way to start talking……" — David Foster Wallace
"This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants."
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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 was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary…
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Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a…
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Obviously I always wanted to do a contemporary piece.
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I have learned to interface - what I think would be the contemporary term - with various different lexicons, and…
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The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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While I love to read contemporary fiction, I'm not drawn to writing it. Perhaps it's because the former journalist in…
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One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary…
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If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values…
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I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away…
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Body and soul, Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity: How can I…
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