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David Foster Wallace Quotes

It looks like you can write a minimalist piece without much bleeding. And you can. But not a good one.

David Foster Wallace

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Good You Looks Write Without Like

I have long since thrown in the towel on the Democratic and Republican parties because they are really a front group for the 1%, for predatory banks, fossil fuel giants, and war profiteers.

War Long Group Republican Giants

I'm just a seasonal guy. Basketball, football, baseball, boxing, golf. Give it to me all the time.

Time Football Baseball Me Basketball

I love being on the road, but to make a living as a road comic, you have to be on it most weeks out of the year. That's just too much for me. But I would love to be such a successful road comic that I don't have to go on it every week.

Love Me Road Week Year You

I used to love assemblies because it got me out of class.

Love Me Class Out Used Because

Well, most grown-ups forget what it was like to be a kid. I vowed that I would never forget.

Never Forget Forget Never Kid Well

My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly.

Work Style Writing Story Try Own

When you are truly you and share who you are with the world and be confident in who you are, it doesn't matter what size you are. It doesn't matter what your different body parts look like.

World Confident You Body Look Size

It's sad that the BBC is toning down Dennis the Menace for a cartoon series. He is losing his weapons, catapult and peashooter, will no longer pick on Walter the Softy, and his ferocious grimace is to be replaced by a charming, boyish smile.

Smile Sad Losing Down Will Boyish

Promoting a record on a major label is like running a minor military campaign.

Robyn Hitchcock

Military Like Label Running Campaign

I have a couple of friends who have gone pro in sports, and if you are off by an inch, it's an entire mindgame for the next week. That's how it works: like, your whole world is based around an inch. Being an actor, your whole world turns on an inch, too.

Sports World Friends Week You Actor

It feels like now I - you know, I'm almost 80 years old - I can sit back and retire, you know, and say, 'Look, our young people are taking over.' And that's great. That's what I'd like to see.

Great People You Look Back I Can

Many mothers and daughters are as close as any two people can be, but closeness always carries with it the need - indeed, the desire - to consider how your actions will affect the other person, and this can make you feel that you are no longer in control of your own life.

Life People Control Feel You Person

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