What did David Foster Wallace mean by: Almost anything that you pay close, direct attention to becomes interesting. - David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA Copy
+ I am not what you see and hear. Feraz Zeid, September 1, 2023December 24, 2023, David Foster Wallace, God, 0 - David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
+ Words and a book and a belief that the world is words. Feraz Zeid, September 6, 2023December 26, 2023, David Foster Wallace, Belief, Book, 0 - David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
+ Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Foster Wallace, Fiction, Loneliness, Relieved, 0 - David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
+ Almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Foster Wallace, Engineers, Important, 0 - David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
+ If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Foster Wallace, Fidelity, Motivational, Perfectionism, 0 - David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
+ I believe I want adult sanity, which seems to me the only unalloyed form of heroism available today. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Foster Wallace, Adults, Believe, Heroism, 0 - David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
+ Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Foster Wallace, Choices, 0 - David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
+ The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still “are” human beings, now. Or can be. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Foster Wallace, Fact, 0 - David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
The constancy of the wise is only the art of keeping disquietude to one’s self. Explain - François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
Numberless arts appear foolish whose secret motives are most wise and weighty. Explain - François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
A wise man neither suffers himself to be governed, nor attempts to govern others. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
If it be true that a man is rich who wants nothing, a wise man is a very rich man. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
Let fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France