"We're kind of wishing some parents would come……" — David Foster Wallace
"We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come back - I mean, what's wrong with us?"
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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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More Come Back Quotes
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I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just…
— Paul Auster
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There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come…
— Lance Armstrong
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If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.
— Richard Bach
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I'm amazed every time I come back to Vancouver at how much it's changed. You go away for a month…
— Bryan Adams
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I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a…
— Russell Banks
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I do a job and am lucky enough to do a job that I love, but it is a hard…
— Javier Bardem
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And the whole Oscar thing, that is just surreal: you spend months and months doing promotion, and then come back…
— Javier Bardem
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If you're going to go through hell... I suggest you come back learning something.
— Drew Barrymore
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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and…
— Dirk Benedict
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When it comes down to it, it's giving people a good night out in a basic way and I think…
— Matthew Bourne
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Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance…
— Edward Albee
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