What did David Foster Wallace mean by: every failure is also a victory. - David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA Copy
+ How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Foster Wallace, Odd, 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
+ 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
+ Why not? Why not?Why not not, then, if the best reasoning you can contrive is why not? Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, Reasoning, 0 - David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
+ Acceptance is usually more a matter of fatigue than anything else. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Foster Wallace, Acceptance, Fatigue, 0 - David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
+ Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Foster Wallace, Expectations, Talent, 0 - David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
+ 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
+ life’s endless war against the self you cannot live without. Feraz Zeid, October 3, 2023December 26, 2023, David Foster Wallace, Self, War, 0 - David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
The use of EU summits to frame political victories or defeats is an annoying habit. - Jean-Claude Juncker Politician · Luxembourg
love is not a victory march, it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah. - Jeff Buckley Singer-songwriter
In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest. - William Penn Founder of the Province of Pennsylvania · England
The American People in their Righteous Might will win through to Absolute Victory. - Franklin D. Roosevelt 32nd U.S. President · USA
I glory in the conflict, that I may hereafter exult in the victory. I know that victory is certain. - Frederick Douglass Abolitionist · USA
A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory. - Friedrich Durrenmatt Playwright · Switzerland