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It's not desiring the fall; it's terror of the flames. — David Foster Wallace

There is a sense in which we are all each other's consequences. — Wallace Stegner

The greatest poverty is not to live
In a physical world, to feel that one's desire
Is too difficult to tell from despair. — Wallace Stevens

The United Nations is nothing but a trap-door to the Red World's immense concentration camp. We pretty much control the U.N. — Harold Wallace Rosenthal

The average person's idea of a great man, rather than one who serves, is of one who succeeds in getting himself served. — Wallace D. Wattles

[T]he worst kind of nihilist - the kind who isn't even aware he's a nihilist. — David Foster Wallace

Actually just has a born tech-science wienie's congenital impatience with the referential murkiness and inelegance of verbal systems. — David Foster Wallace

This was my world: cold, tangled and distorted. -Keira — S.L. Wallace

And what's above is in the past
As sure as all the angels are. — Wallace Stevens

Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art. — Wallace Stevens

It is poverty's speech that seeks us out the most.
It is older than the oldest speech of Rome.
This is the tragic accent of the scene. — Wallace Stevens

I'm a very lucky man. It's a beautiful thing for a writer, to see people allowing your words to enter their own unconscious and their souls. — Wallace Shawn

It's well-known that an overkeen sense of obligation tends to afflict the congenitally nice. — David Foster Wallace

I like David Foster Wallace. But if you type David Foster Wallace into OkCupid, it's a shitshow. — Moira Weigel

This argument is not the barrel of drugged trout that Methodological Descriptivism was, but it's still vulnerable to objections. — David Foster Wallace

Bain's view was always that C.T. — David Foster Wallace

It's all in the opposition of the thumbs. For all we know, whales sing in three act plays - but they can't write them down. — Bronwen Wallace

Remembering a man's stories makes him immortal. — Daniel 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

One must read poetry with one's nerves. — Wallace Stevens

Mary had a little lamb, its fleece electrostatic / And everywhere Mary went, the lights became erratic. — David Foster Wallace

That everybody's sneeze sounds different. — David Foster Wallace

The drowned panic of not being able to ask questions or have any input into what somebody's saying is so awful it sort of dwarfs the pain. — David Foster Wallace

Patriotism is considered to be an emotion a person ought to feel. But why? Why is it nobler to love your own country than to love someone else's? — Wallace Shawn

Commercial comedy's often set up to feature an ironist making
devastating sport of someone who's naive or sentimental or pretentious or
pompous. — David Foster Wallace

Her expression is from Page 18 of the Victoria's Secret catalogue. — David Foster Wallace

When he settles in with the tray and cartridge, the TP's viewer's digital display reads 1927h. — David Foster Wallace

The Great White Male is rap's Grand Inquisitor, its idiot questioner, its Alien Other no less than Reds were for McCarthy. — David Foster Wallace

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. — David Foster Wallace

I am concentrating docilely on the question why U.S. restrooms always appear to us as infirmaries for public distress, the place to reagain control. — David Foster Wallace

Kid, sobriety's like a hard-on; the minute you get it, you want to fuck with it. — David Foster Wallace

Gratitude unifies the mind of man with the intelligence of substance, so that man's thoughts are received by the formless. — Wallace D. Wattles

De Tocqueville's thrust is that it's in the democratic citizen's nature to be like a leaf that doesn't believe in the tree it's part of. — David Foster Wallace

Just because you've read someone's Facebook status doesn't mean you're truly in touch with that person. — George Wallace

I'm ashamed and embarrassed to say that I've read very little of David Foster Wallace's work. It's a huge gap in my education, one of many. — Ben Fountain

It's not that words or human language stop having any meaning or relevance after you die, by the way. — David Foster Wallace

The whole quantum setup ends up being embarrassing in the special way something pretentious is embarrassing when it's also wrong. — David Foster Wallace

That a person who did something for somebody's gratitude was more like a 2-D cutout image of a person than a bona fide person. — 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

So yo then man what's your story? — David Foster Wallace

In my experience, the world's happiest man is a young professor building bookcases. — Wallace Stegner

Read only the most optimistic comments on the world's news; those in harmony with your picture. — Wallace D. Wattles

I like the fans' sound at night. Do you? It's like somebody big far away goes like: it'sOKit'sOKit'sOKit'sOK, over and over. From very far away. — David Foster Wallace

Sentence-by-sentence basis - that it's okay if a person — David Foster Wallace

The monsters are gone."
"Really?" Doubtful.
"I killed the monsters. That's what fathers do. — Fiona Wallace

Escape before it's too late. — Wallace Shawn

You can make contact with people all day but it only seems fulfilling when it's with someone you truly enjoy. — Andersen Prunty

Sure, I look like a white man. But my heart is as black as anyone's here. — George C. Wallace

As each person's sandal hits the pier, a sociolinguistic transformation from cruiser to tourist is effected. — David Foster Wallace

You'd be surprised what I can do with a butter knife. — S.L. Wallace

People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely. — Henry Cantwell Wallace

It's so nice to be able to end a sentence with a preposition when it's easier. — David Foster Wallace

Who teaches your U.S.A. children how to choose their temple? What to love enough not to think two times? — David Foster Wallace

It's probably hard to feel any sort of Romantic spiritual connection to nature when you have to make your living from it. — David Foster Wallace

The night
Makes everything grotesque. Is it because
Night is the nature of man's interior world? — Wallace Stevens

It's not what you lift, it's where you carry it. — David Foster Wallace

Poetry is the scholar's art. — Wallace Stevens

There's good self-consciousness, and then there's toxic, paralyzing, raped-by-psychic-Bedouins self-consciousness. — David Foster Wallace

I am impressed by how much of my grandparent's life depended on continuities, contacts, connections, friendships, and blood relationships. — Wallace Stegner

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

I wasn't a very good waitress, always spilling things on people and forgetting things. I once spilled ashes all over Mike Wallace's table. — Tracy Pollan

Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else's personality, that is not art. — Bennie Wallace

Greater when one's mind has been exercised and thus — David Foster Wallace

There's just nothing stronger than the heart of a volunteer. — Randall Wallace

Our leaders, our government is us, all of us, so if they're venal and weak it's because we are. — David Foster Wallace

I'm in awe of people out there who deal with Alzheimer's, because they have to deal with death 10 times over, year after year. — Marcia Wallace

The stars are putting on their glittering belts,
They throw around their shoulders cloaks that flash
Like a great shadow's last embellishment — Wallace Stevens

David Foster Wallace: There's so much beauty and profundity in all kinds of shitty pop culture all around us. — David Lipsky

Youth hasn't got anything to do with chronological age. It's times of hope and happiness. — Wallace Stegner

I just follow God's lead. One step, one day and one opportunity at a time. The hardest part is not becoming distracted. — Carlos Wallace

Just because something's damaged doesn't mean it shouldn't be treated with respect.'
'Ad,' Wallace said, 'it's a coffee table, not an orphan. — Sarah Dessen

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I believe hip hop's characteristic beliefs as a whole are misunderstood, underappreciated and highly underestimated. — Carlos Wallace

Sitting in Grandmother's old wicker chair and littering my porch with her foolish young life. — Wallace Stegner

My body gets excited without my permission, and it's not okay. It's out of control. I don't like out of control, but I like Wallace. — Francesca Zappia

There's more to life than sitting there interfacing, it might be
a newsflash to you. — David Foster Wallace

The truth is that there's no difference between a life and a story? But a life pretends to be something more? But it really isn't more? LENORE: — David Foster Wallace

In terms of number of movies, I've been in an extraordinary amount. If you count only the minutes I'm onscreen, it's not so long. — Wallace Shawn

For Ming Kai's nose - which, like so many Chinese organs, was advanced beyond the reckoning of his Caucasian brother - — Daniel Wallace

I've learned through a series of trials and errors that the median space is actually what's missing in our daily walk. — Carlos Wallace

Fiction's about what it is to be a fucking human being. — David Foster Wallace

You can go to a play that is enjoyable because it's funny, and then on the next night you can go to a play that's enjoyable because it's 'disturbing.' — Wallace Shawn

It's fear that makes a situation dangerous. — Marilyn Wallace

I am not saying it's easy, I am saying it's necessary! — Carlos Wallace

Sometimes with the Palins, it's exactly what it looks like. — Nicolle Wallace

Anything but chicken, and some honesty on the side, please. — S.L. Wallace

The inactive viewer's screen is the color of way out over the Atlantic looking straight down on a cold day. — David Foster Wallace

Life's nonsense pierces us with strange relation. — Wallace Stevens

Yes, my sister is weird and says crap like en route. I smirk - it's a common facial tic of mine - and turn to her. — Stacey Wallace Benefiel

I think it's easy to stop smoking; it's just hard not to commit a felony after you stop. — David Foster Wallace

But from special it's not very far to Alone. — David Foster Wallace