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David Foster Wallace

"I think the main function of contemporary irony is to protect thespeaker from being interpreted as naive or sentimental."

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Donna Grant

"When we miss understanding, we meet misunderstanding. Misunderstanding always pushes understanding far away!"

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Donna Grant

"The power of words is in the works of words. People are much more bonded by the works of words than words. The work of words is the trigger of words."

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Donna Grant

"One who utters speech that isn't rough But instructive and truthfulSo that he offends no one, Him I call Brahmin."

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Donna Grant

"Words don't get accident, hands and tongues drive them wrongly!"

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Donna Grant

"If everyone knew exactly what I was going to say, then there would be no point in my saying it, would there?"

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Donna Grant

"When it occurs without having to voice it - vibin' on the same page, flowin' on the same wave, soakin' up the same light rays."

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Donna Grant

"Focus your attention on the quality of your words, and not the quantity, because few sensible talks attracts millions of listeners more than a thousand gibberish."

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Donna Grant

"Confrontation affords you the opportunity to hear the other side of the story."

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Donna Grant

"Don't bother to ring a bell in the ear that doesn't listen. Move to another ear, and if he doesn't listen to your bell, sit back and listen to his nemesis."

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Donna Grant

"Silence can answer the question words may fail to answer. If you want to know what silence can do, keep silence!"

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

Art

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David Foster Wallace
"For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going."

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David Foster Wallace
"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

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David Foster Wallace
"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."

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David Foster Wallace
"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."

Society

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David Foster Wallace
"She was terrified of everything, and terrified to show it."

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David Foster Wallace
"But someone sometime let you forget how to choose, and what. Someone let your peoples forget it was the only thing of importance, choosing. . . How to choose any but a child's greedy choices if there is no loving-filled father to guide, inform, teach the person how to choose? How is there freedom to choose if one does not learn how to choose?"

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David Foster Wallace
"What teachers and the administration in that era never seemed to see was that the mental work of what they called daydreaming often required more effort and concentration than it would have taken simply to listen in class. Laziness is not the issue. It is just not the work dictated by the administration."

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David Foster Wallace
"There is something magical to me about literature and fiction and I think it can do things not only that pop culture cannot do but that are urgent now: one is that by creating a character in a work of fiction you can allow a reader to leap over the wall of self and to allow him to imagine himself not only somewhere else but someone else in a way that television and movies, in a way that no other form can do. I think people are essentially lonely and alone and frightened of being alone."

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David Foster Wallace
"The real, many-veiled answer to the question of just what goes through a great player's mind as he stands at the center of hostile crowd-noise and lines up the free-throw that will decide the game might well be: nothing at all."

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