"You get to consciously decide what has meaning……" — David Foster Wallace
"You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't. You get to decide what to worship."
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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 Consciously Quotes
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We try to exile ourselves more and more from nature - not always consciously: We build houses; we dismiss nature;…
— Diane Ackerman
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Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control…
— Robert Foster Bennett
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I don't consciously think of how parenthood has changed me but I'm sure it must have.
— Cate Blanchett
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I don't think about the characters I choose to play, analytically or consciously.
— Steve Buscemi
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I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.
— Taylor Caldwell
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If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the…
— Sri Chinmoy
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I realised how paranoid and guarded and not trusting - walled-in - I had become. Not consciously so, but just…
— Jennifer Aniston
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The time was simply ripe for the disappearance of tonality. Naturally this was a fierce struggle; inhibitions of the most…
— Anton Webern
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The most innovative designers consciously reject the standard option box and cultivate an appetite for thinking wrong.
— Marty Neumeier
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Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard…
— John F. Kennedy
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The more conscious we become the more consciously we choose that which we set in motion to create.
— Caroline Myss
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Religions fulfill deep-seated psychological needs for people, and if you don't get it from a specific religious doctrine, you'll get…
— James Cameron
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