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Abstruse dullness is actually a much more effective shield than is secrecy. — David Foster Wallace

Mediocrity is contextual. — David Foster Wallace

I didn't know how to feel. I'd been rebuffed. I hadn't even been trying to buff. — Danny Wallace

I have since wandered among men of many races and many religions. — Alfred Russel Wallace

After all, what are any of us after but the conviction of belonging? — Wallace Stegner

I was out-niggered, and I will never be out-niggered again. — George C. Wallace

We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels. — Henry A. Wallace

When you marry into a Mormon family you marry tribes and nations. — Wallace Stegner

The grackles sing avant the spring
Most spiss oh! Yes, most spissantly.
They sing right puissantly. — Wallace Stevens

It is time that beats in the breast and it is time
That batters against the mind, silent and proud,
The mind that knows it is destroyed by time. — Wallace Stevens

Just because I understand does not mean I agree. — Carlos Wallace

It is really not the number of things you do , but the efficiency of each separate action that counts. — Wallace D. Wattles

American archaeology has always attracted lots of amateurs ... They were digging up Indian pottery all over the place. — Anthony F. C. Wallace

The basis of all choice in manifestation is Loving Yourself. This is the start and the finish to all good things that you are looking for. — Dee Wallace

Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right. — Wallace Stevens

Thought tends to collect in pools. — Wallace Stevens

When you're nailing a custard pie to the wall, and it starts to wilt, it doesn't do any good to hammer in more nails. Now — Wallace Stegner

There is nothing like a doorbell to precipitate the potential into the kinetic. — Wallace Stegner

The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die. — David Foster Wallace

I mean, Tarantino is such a SHMUCK 90 percent of the time. But ten percent of the time, I've seen genius shining off the guy. — David Foster Wallace

Sounds kind of ad hoc and jerry-rigged and haphazard.' 'Everybody's a critic. This wasn't an aesthetic endeavor. — David Foster Wallace

I'm screaming for help and everybody's acting as if I'm singing Ethel Merman covers ... — David Foster Wallace

Who would die for this chance to be fed this death of pleasure with spoons, in their warm homes, alone, unmoving? — David Foster Wallace

I don't want to hurt myself. I want to stop hurting. — David Foster Wallace

The trees' bony fingers make spell-casting gestures in the wind as they pass. — David Foster Wallace

There is no hatred in my love for you. Only a sadness I feel all the more strongly for my inability to explain or describe it. — David Foster Wallace

Hal finds he rather envies a man who feels he has something to explain his being fucked up, parents to blame it on. — David Foster Wallace

The only real significance she had attached to the memory was that it was funny what stuck with you. — David Foster Wallace

It's no coincidence it's the gurus on mountains who're wise. You get to the top: you're already theirs. — David Foster Wallace

Give every person more in use value than you take from them in cash value. — Wallace D. Wattles

So which is the lie? Hard or soft? Silence or time? — David Foster Wallace

The purpose of poetry is to make life complete in itself. — Wallace Stevens

True villains are extremely photogenic. — Wallace Stevens

One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be. — Wallace Stevens

Since my accident I am a little more mindful of the suffering of other people. — George C. Wallace

The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence. — Wallace Stevens

I consider the integrity of the material to be of greater value than any message I might want to get across. — Wallace Stegner

Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure. — Irving Wallace

Some are born in their place, some find it, some realize after long searching that the place they left is the one they have been searching for. — Wallace Stegner

The life we all live is amateurish and accidental; it begins in accident and proceeds by trial and error toward dubious ends. — Wallace Stegner

The mind can never be satisfied. — Wallace Stevens

You can run with the big dogs or sit on the porch and bark. — Wallace Arnold

neuroscience confirms that storytelling has unique power to change opinions and behavior. — Wallace J. Nichols

He'd cure himself by excess. — David Foster Wallace

It was autumn and falling stars
Covered the shrivelled forms
Crouched in the moonlight. — Wallace Stevens

Latin is an abomination! — Lew Wallace

Claire slid one shoe on. Slid one shoe on. Slid one shoe on. — Stacey Wallace Benefiel

The meeting of writer and reader is an intimate act, and it properly takes place in private. — Wallace Stegner

Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints. — Wallace Stevens

Breasts are uniformly zeppelinesque and in various perilous stages of semiconfinement. — David Foster Wallace

Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility. — Wallace Stevens

This appetite to choose death by pleasure if it is available to choose - this appetite of your people unable to choose appetites, this is the death. — David Foster Wallace

I like Rhine wine, blue grapes, good cheese, endive and lots of books, etc., etc., etc., as much as I like supreme fiction. — Wallace Stevens

Freedom is like a man who kills himself
Each night, an incessant butcher, whose knife
Grows sharp in blood. — Wallace Stevens

Do not pay too much attention to the advice or suggestions of those around you. — Wallace D. Wattles

'E.T.' was a healing movie; it was a heart movie. It was all about getting about getting home and love. — Dee Wallace

What good is wealth if one is spiritually, emotionally, and mentally bankrupt? — Carlos Wallace

Do not talk about your greatness; you are really, in essential nature, no great than those around you. — Wallace D. Wattles

I will be the stronger of the knowledge. In warning there is strength. — Lew Wallace

One of the really American things about Hal, probably, is the way he despises what it is he's really lonely for — David Foster Wallace

David Cronenberg's mainstream Crash comes out of absolutely nowhere to win something called Best Alternative Adult Feature Film. — David Foster Wallace

She had rooms in her mind that she would not look into. — Wallace Stegner

What is there in life except one's ideas,
Good air, good friend, what is there in life? — Wallace Stevens

Man is an eternal sophomore. — Wallace Stevens

The other half is to dramatize that we still 'are' human beings, now. Or can be. — David Foster Wallace

Of the Surface of Things In my room, the world is beyond my understanding; But when I walk I see that it consists of three or four Hills and a cloud. — Wallace Stevens

The thinker as reader reads what has been written.
He wears the words he reads to look upon
Within his being ... — Wallace Stevens

I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art. — David Foster Wallace

[The entire text of Infinite Jest.] — David Foster Wallace

The entire ball game, in terms of both the exam and life, was what you gave attention to vs. what you willed yourself to not. — David Foster Wallace

Our artistic heroes tend to be those self-exercisers, like Picasso, and Nabokov, and Wallace Stevens, who rather defiantly kept playing past dark. — John Updike

We come here with no peaceful intent, but ready for battle, determined to avenge our wrongs and set our country free. — William Wallace

Stop giving the best part of you to those unworthy of that gift. — Carlos Wallace

I hope they have found enough pleasure along the way so that they don't want it ended — Wallace Stegner

Then she realizes there's nothing meaningful or particularly interesting about seeing a celebrity in person, or even meeting one briefly. — Matt Wallace

Do not wait for an opportunity to be all that you want to be. — Wallace D. Wattles

Sally has a smile I would accept as my last view on earth,.. — Wallace Stegner

You must cease from looking at human mistakes and look at successes; cease from seeing faults and see virtues. — Wallace D. Wattles

That something smelled delicious!' I screamed. — David Foster Wallace

And my singing, I don't think I could sing Wagner or opera, but I could probably carry a tune. I was in a musical once, but it was never performed. — Wallace Shawn

Don't allow people who say it cannot be done interrupt you while you are doing it. — Carlos Wallace

For the listener, who listens in the snow, / And, nothing himself, beholds /
Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is. — Wallace Stevens

A person's way of doing things is a direct result of the way he thinks about things. — Wallace D. Wattles

Irony and hip ennui are extremely authoritarian. — David Foster Wallace

The old seraph, parcel-gilded, among violets Inhaled the appointed odor, while the doves Rose up like phantoms from chronologies. — Wallace Stevens

Creation is a knack which is empowered by practice, and like almost any skill, it is lost if you don't practice it. — Wallace Stegner

Not that that mystical stuff's necessarily true: The only thing that's capital-T true is that you get to decide how you're going to try to see it. — David Foster Wallace

[T]o really try to be informed and literate today is to feel stupid nearly all the time, and to need help. — David Foster Wallace

Wisdom is the power to perceive the best ends to aim at and the best means for reaching those ends. — Wallace D. Wattles

desire is the sugar in human food. — David Foster Wallace

There is considerable freedom attached to knowing and accepting who you are. — Carlos Wallace

Life involves a lot of unknowns. — S.L. Wallace

After a lustre of the moon, we say
We have not the need of any paradise,
We have not the need of any seducing hymn. — Wallace Stevens

We must learn to choose between lining our bank accounts and being accountable for our future. — Carlos Wallace

You must form a clear and definite mental picture of what you want. You cannot transmit an idea unless you have it yourself. — Wallace D. Wattles

Because Tavis had been the one to take the lion's share of the heat when it turned out that Blue Jays' spectators in the stands, — David Foster Wallace

This is why they started us here so young: to give ourselves away before the age when the questions 'why' and 'to what' grow real beaks and claws. — David Foster Wallace

Because the Empire controls the media, we can turn any news to the Emperor's advantage. — Daniel Wallace

The world needs demonstration more than it needs teaching. — Wallace D. Wattles

My tribute to mystical, magical trees that the Cherokee called "standing people ... " — Wallace Stevens