"We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life "outside" the story changes the story."

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"We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life "outside" the story changes the story."

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Personal Development

"And there wasn't anything he wanted to do that he couldn't make time for. What did he have to mope about, really? What more did he want? Love, he could hear Eve saying. Purpose. Love. Purpose. Those are the things that you can't plan for. Those are the things that just happen. And what if they don't happen? Do you spend your whole life pining for them? Waiting to be happy?"

Rainbow Rowell, American Author

Life, Love, Purpose, Desire

"Eleanor had never thought about killing herself " ever " but she thought a lot about stopping."

Rainbow Rowell, American Author

Life, Thought, End, Emotion

"An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind."

Karl Schlegel, German Philosopher

Life, Goal, Artist, Mind

"Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting."

P. G. Wodehouse, English Writer

Life, Despair, Salvation, Worth

"The question isn't who will be with me in life, rather how will I create the ending I am proud of?"

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

Life, Creation, Truth, Wisdom

"If you have never met a woman that would never give up, then you have never met a woman that has seen miracles."

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

Life, Faith, Truth, Happiness, Wisdom

"People who truly live their lives don't have time to complain or judge others. They're too busy enjoying life and love and everything in between!"

Charlotte Eriksson, American Psychologist

Life, Positivity, Happiness, Love

"Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

Life, Painting

"You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down."

Stephen King, American Author

Life, Death, Truth, Regret, Wisdom

Explore more quotes by David Foster Wallace

"You know, the whole thing about perfectionism. The perfectionism is very dangerous. Because of course if your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything. Because doing anything results in...it's actually kind of tragic because you sacrifice how gorgeous and perfect it is in your head for what it really is. And there were a couple of years where I really struggled with that."

Psychology

"I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader."

Desire

"Why do prostitutes when they get straight always try and get so prim? It's like long-repressed librarian-ambitions come flooding out."

Society

"I will be conveyed to an Emergency Room of some kind, where I will be detained as long as I do not respond to questions, and then, when I do respond to questions, I will be sedated; so it will be an inversion of standard travel, the ambulance and ER: I'll make the journey first, then depart."

Life

"One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion could be more horrible than solipsism."

Philosophy

"You get to decide what to worship."

Wisdom

"It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know."

Love

"Worship your body, beauty, and sexual allure and you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you."

Society

"There's a grosser irony about Politically Correct English. This is that PCE purports to be the dialect of progressive reform but is in fact - in its Orwellian substitution of the euphemisms of social equality for social equality itself - of vastly more help to conservatives and the US status quo than traditional SNOOT prescriptions ever were."

Society

"We're all on each other's food chain. All of us. It's an individual sport. Welcome to the meaning of individual. We're each deeply alone here. It's what we all have in common, this aloneness."

Solitude