"Truly decent, innocent people can be taxing to…" — David Foster Wallace

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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. A few more worth reading:

We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.
One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough…
God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though-and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who…
When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional…
Under fun's new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you…
Of course, the fact that Dostoevsky can tell a juicy story isn't enough to make him great. If it were,…
Some words have to be explicitly uttered, Lenore. Only by actually uttering certain words does one really DO what one…
You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing- your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky…
Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare…
No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories.
Molly Notkin often confides on the phone to Joelle van Dyne about the one tormented love of Nokin's life thus…
No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.

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When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's… — Drew Barrymore
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Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils… — Lionel Blue
The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind. — Norman Borlaug
I'm a decent cook; I'm a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point… — Anthony Bourdain
I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk.… — Anthony Bourdain
When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at… — Samuel Butler
I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a… — Smedley Butler
All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army… — Adam Carolla
My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its… — John le Carre
People think they have to be ambitious. But at a certain age, all you want is to be around nice,… — Graydon Carter

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