What did David Foster Wallace mean by: Dostoevski informs everybody; or he ought to. - David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA Copy
+ A novelist has to know enough about a subject to fool the passenger next to him on an airplane. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Foster Wallace, Airplane, Novelists, Writing, 0 - David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
+ No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Foster Wallace, Stories, Writing, 0 - David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
+ People, unless they’re paying attention, tend to confuse fanciness with intelligence or authority. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Foster Wallace, Attention, Pay Attention, 0 - David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
+ Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It’s probably more Western than U.S. per se. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Foster Wallace, End, Gdp, Pleasure, 0 - David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
+ You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn’t. You get to decide what to worship. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Foster Wallace, Graduation, Worship, 0 - David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
+ Nothing brings you together like a common enemy. Feraz Zeid, August 17, 2023December 12, 2023, David Foster Wallace, Common, Enemy, Together, 0 - David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
+ Good writing isn’t a science. It’s an art, and the horizon is infinite. You can always get better. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Foster Wallace, Art, Get Better, Writing, 0 - David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
+ Do not underestimate objects. Feraz Zeid, August 7, 2023December 12, 2023, David Foster Wallace, Objects, Underestimate, 0 - David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
