"Grammar, he saw, was agreement, community, consensus."

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Source : D. T. Max (2012). “Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace”, p.182, Penguin

D. T. Max

#Agreement Quotes #Community Quotes #Saws Quotes

“It is useless to check the vain dunce who has caught the mania of scribbling, whether prose or poetry, canzonets or criticisms,--let such a one go on till the disease exhausts itself. Opposition like water, thrown on burning oil, but increases the evil, because a person of weak judgment will seldom listen to reason, but become obstinate under reproof.”
“When a nation issues ultimatums, it leaves no room for compromise and ensures that war will continue.”
“Actually, I'm going to nerd out on you, so prepare.”
“Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?”
“Huge sums are invested globally in medical research and development - and with good reason.”
“People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.”
“The goal, I suppose, any fiction writer has, no matter what your subject, is to hit the human heart and the tear ducts and the nape of the neck and to make a person feel something about the characters are going through and to experience the moral paradoxes and struggles of being human.”
“Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.”

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