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Quote by David Foster Wallace

“Dostoevski informs everybody; or he ought to.”

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American novelist known for his unique literary style and profound insights into modern life. His works include 'Infinite Jest' and 'The Broom of the System'. more

“....there is an ending [to Infinite Jest] as far as I'm concerned. Certain kind of parallel lines are supposed to start converging in such a way that an "end" can be projected by the reader somewhere beyond the right frame. If no such convergence or projection occured to you, then the book's failed for you.”

Ifs Way Kind Book Ends Certain Lines Reader Concerned Infinite Parallels Projection Jest Convergence Infinite Jest Parallel Lines

Author:David Foster Wallace

“I gave up coffee. It's almost worse than giving up a lover.”

Giving Lovers Giving Up Coffee Gave Up Drinking Coffee

Author:Sandra Bullock

“Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.”

Government Spirit Faults Charity Ice Indifference Consistent Frozen Carpe Diem Occasional Omission Cold Blooded Warm Hearted

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Hollywood movies are designed for 15-year-old youths from North Dakota who, intellectually speaking, are on equal terms with a British zoo animal.”

Years Term Animal Youth Equal Hollywood British Zoos Dakota Hollywood Movies North Dakota

Author:Jeremy Clarkson

“the best lies to tell are the ones people want to believe”

People Want Believe Lying

Author:Jasper Fforde

“We're all of us haunted and haunting.”

Haunting

Book:Lullaby

Source: Lullaby

“I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. Recording the man shaving at the window opposite and the woman in the kimono washing her hair. Some day, all this will have to be developed, carefully printed, fixed.”

Thinking Men Hair Window Opposites Cameras Fixed Passive Printed Washing Shutters Shaving Kimonos

Author:Christopher Isherwood

“Captain, I think you have a problem with your brain being missing.”

Thinking Problem Brain Missing Captains Firefly

Author:Joss Whedon

“...What is the use of beauty? i have lived my life surrounded by painters, and still I do not know the answer. But i suspect, some days, that beauty helps protect the spirit of mankind, swaddle it and succor it, so that we might survive. Beauty is no end in itself, but if it makes or lives less miserable so that we might be more kind-well, then, lets have beauty, painted on our porcelain, hanging on our walls, ringing through our stories.”

Ifs Knows Wells Kind Stills Ends Helping Stories Use Might Spirit Answers Mankind Wall Protect Painter Miserable Suspects Hanging On Porcelain

Author:Gregory Maguire

“The thing about new things is you feel new when you buy them, you feel as though you are somebody different because you own something different. We are our possessions, you know. There are people who get addicted to buying new stuff. Things. Piles and piles of things. But the new things become old things so quickly. We need new things to replace the old things.”

People Knows Needs Feels Different Stuff Possession Buying New Things Old Things New Stuff

Book:Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God

Source: Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God

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