"To be willing to sort of die in……" — David Foster Wallace
"To be willing to sort of die in order to move the reader, somehow. Even now I'm scared about how sappy this'll look in print, saying this."
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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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The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela,…
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Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.
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We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you…
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I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.
— Isaac Asimov
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I am Syrian, I was made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria.
— Bashar al-Assad
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To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular…
— Charles Babbage
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When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone…
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as…
— Francis Bacon
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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to…
— Joan Baez
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When I die I want to go to Vogue.
— David Bailey
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
— Honore de Balzac
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