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David Foster Wallace Quotes

The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.

David Foster Wallace

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: February 21, 1962 - December 12, 2008

Topics

Great Flaws Irony See Up Things

I was a very shy child.

We believe Ineos is a refreshing place to work. We believe strongly in employee share ownership.

Work Believe Ownership Place Share

We expect Seoul to be one of our most important markets not only in Asia but around the world.

World Important Expect Only Most

Given the professionalism of Michigan teachers, I think they're not teaching because of the financial rewards.

Think Financial Professionalism Given

In Australian culture, people are just more laid back, people aren't as serious, they just take their time with things. It's just like, whatever, if I don't get it done I don't get it done.

Time Culture People Back Done More

Just because one brother is good and one brother is bad in the same family, we cannot say that the rest of the family is bad or good.

Family Good Brother Rest Bad Say

Each of us knows a few or several young people whose lives have been devastated by cancer. I don't mean to be nihilistic about it, but it is very much an active killer of people now.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

People Young Now Mean Active Cancer

I think that there are artists of different genres whose calling is to use their art to hope to affect and better the human condition - whether it's System of a Down, or Rage Against the Machine, or Public Enemy, or the Clash, Bruce Springsteen, or Pete Seeger. It's a group that I'm proud to be counted among.

Hope Art Proud Think Better Down

I loved fun. I spent my whole life in search of fun. I have not given up that part of myself.

Life Myself Fun Search Loved Up

I was very disturbed to find that a few people were angry at my weight loss.

Angry People Loss Find Weight Loss

I don't just buy a dress because it's pretty - it has to be evocative of a mood, a character I want to take on.

Character Dress Want Mood Pretty

I would like to tell our American, British and Spanish friends that the Iraqi crisis is not a problem between the United States and France, but between those who want to move forward in the logic of war and the international community.

Dominique de Villepin

Community War Forward American Logic

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