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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 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 springMost spiss oh! Yes, most spissantly.
They sing right puissantly. — Wallace Stevens
It is time that beats in the breast and it is timeThat 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
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
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 starsCovered 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 himselfEach 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
Do not talk about your greatness; you are really, in essential nature, no great than those around you.
— Wallace D. Wattles
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
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— 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
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
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
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
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[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
Life involves a lot of unknowns.
— S.L. Wallace
After a lustre of the moon, we sayWe 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
