January 2012
128 posts
“There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been...”
– Ursula LeGuin
“Logical validity is not a guarantee of truth.”
– David Foster Wallace
“I have filled 3 Mead notebooks trying to figure out whether it was Them or Just...”
– David Foster Wallace
“What the really great artists do is they’re entirely themselves....”
– David Foster Wallace
“Whatever you get paid attention for is never what you think is most important...”
– David Foster Wallace
“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”
– David Foster Wallace
The Wisdom of David Foster Wallace →
I just found this list of wonderful quotes from David Foster Wallace, definitely one of my favorite writers, not necessarily for any particular book in its entirety, but for his short, buried moments of wisdom.
“And now nobody can hurt me on the inside. I have this trick — anything you can...”
– Second Star to the Right
“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no...”
– Robert Frost
“To Hell with reality. I want to die in music, not in reason or prose. People...”
– Louis Ferdinand Celine
Rule #1: Don't Be a Fright →