David Foster Wallace Short Quotes

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You burn with hunger for food that does not exist.

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It takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak.

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No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.

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Severity is in the eye of the sufferer, it says. Pain is pain.

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Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.

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She wanted only tall smooth bottles whose labels spoke of Proof.

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Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.

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Acceptance is usually more a matter of fatigue than anything else.

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The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.

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'You know what your problem is, Hallie?' 'I have just one problem?'

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I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.

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Genuine pathological openness is about as seductive as Tourette's Syndrome.

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They can kill you, but the legalities of eating you are quite a bit dicier.

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They can kill you, but the legalities of eating you are quite a bit dicier.
Te Occidere Possunt Sed Te Edere Non Possunt Nefas Est

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I'd tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear

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It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase.

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Is it all right to boil a sentient creature alive just for our gustatory pleasure?

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Almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it.

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Can the decision to be less selfish ever be anything other than a selfish decision?

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Does somebody have an explanation why there's human flesh on the hall window upstairs?

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Why not? Why not? Why not not, then, if the best reasoning you can contrive is why not?

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My bones are ringing the way sometimes people say their ears are ringing, I'm so tired.

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The sun would leave my sky if I couldn't assume you'd simply come and tell me you were sad.

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After a few weeks of this she'd spend a whole day weeping, beating at herself as if on fire.

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I cannot say what color Lenore Beadsman's eyes are; I cannot look at them; they are the sun to me.

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Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever.

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We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.

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Mary had a little lamb, its fleece electrostatic / And everywhere Mary went, the lights became erratic.

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If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it.

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The individual's right to pursue his own vision of the best ration of pleasure to pain: utterly sacrosanct.

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