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David Foster Wallace Quotes

It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.

David Foster Wallace

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Art Creative Exercise Trying You

There are many people who do not know if the U.S. Army has 60,000 men or 6 million. They do not have a clue about that.

Men People Army Know Who Million

I don't have anybody living around me who has much of a sense of what I do. That's exactly what I like.

John Edgar Wideman

Me Living Sense Who Like Much

There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.

Woman Islam Need Always China West

I'd like to know what law is it that says that a woman is a better parent, simply by virtue of her sex.

Woman Law Parent Better Sex Know

When the only two sides fighting are conservative - even if one of them is just conservative in appearance - then everyone loses. And women don't just lose; they're also used as cheap ammunition.

Women Fighting Lose Appearance Cheap

I could have been a dental hygienist with nothing bad ever appearing in print about me, but that's not how I've chosen to lead my life. I knew that you put yourself under a microscope the more famous you become.

Life Yourself Me My Life You Bad

When I gave birth to my fourth child, I suffered from post partum hemorrhaging. I almost lost my life. I was lucky to be under the care of trained health care personnel. I started wondering then what was happening to women in rural villages.

Life Women Health Child Care Lost

I feel that there's a lot of would-be guardians of the culture who think that high-minded literary purpose and the life that gets chronicled in the gossip columns, that these two things are incompatible.

Life Culture Purpose Think Feel Two

The first stage in a technology's advance is that it'll fall below a critical price. After it falls below a critical price, it will tend, if it's successful, to rise above a critical mass, a penetration.

Technology Rise Above Fall Rise Will

You know, when I sit in meetings and things are very tense and people take things extremely seriously and they invest a lot of their ego, I sometimes think to myself, 'Come on, you know, there's life and there's death and there is love.' And all of that ego business is nonsense compared to that.

Christine Lagarde

Life Love Business Myself Death Ego

You can't get a good crew and a good sound system, and a good light system if you do a small tour. If you want the best, those guys want a commitment of about 4 to 6 months. And I'd want the best people and the best stuff.

Good Light Best Commitment People

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Power Man Measure Of A Man Measure

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