What did David Foster Wallace mean by: That what appears to be egoism so often isn’t. - David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA Copy
+ It takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak. Feraz Zeid, July 10, 2023December 12, 2023, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, Weak, 0 - David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
+ every failure is also a victory. Feraz Zeid, July 31, 2023December 12, 2023, David Foster Wallace, Victory, 0 - David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
+ Most of us will still take nihilism over neanderthalism. Feraz Zeid, September 24, 2023December 24, 2023, David Foster Wallace, Nihilism, Still, 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
+ Whatever you get paid attention for is never what you think is most important about yourself. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Foster Wallace, Attention, Important, 0 - David Foster Wallace Novelist · USA
+ There is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness. Feraz Zeid, January 4, 2024January 7, 2024, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, Kindness, 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
+ 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
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