"We're not keen on the idea of the……" — David Foster Wallace
"We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life "outside" the story changes the story."
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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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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
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I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time.
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Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe…
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All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which…
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Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you…
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London changes because of money. It's real estate. If they can build some offices or expensive apartments they will, it's…
— David Bailey
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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our…
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I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it personally.'
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Everything changes as you get older - your mind, your body, the way you view the world.
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People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective…
— Albert Bandura
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I would like, before I die, to see the changes I've always fought for being made. If not, my life…
— Brigitte Bardot
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But there's actually a lot of punk bands out there that go out of the norm, use odd time signatures,…
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