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Quotes About Fulfillment

Some persons can give themselves away to an ambitious pursuit and have that be all the giving-themselves-away-to-something they need to do. Though sometimes this changes as the players get older and the pursuit more stress-fraught. American experience seems to suggest that people are virtually unlimited in their need to give themselves away, on various levels. Some just prefer to do it in secret.
~ David Foster Wallace
his own father told him that talent is sort of a dark gift, that talent is its own expectation: it is there from the start and either lived up to or lost.
~ David Foster Wallace
If you've never wept and want to, have a child.
~ David Foster Wallace
This by the way is known as Werther's Axiom, whereby quote The Intensity of a desire D is inversely proportional to the ease of D's gratification. Known also as Romance.
~ David Foster Wallace
it is often more fun to want something than to have it.
~ David Foster Wallace
The 'base frees and condenses, compresses the whole experience to the implosion of one terrible shattering spike in the graph, an afflated orgasm of the heart that makes her feel, truly, attractive, sheltered by limits, deveiled and loved, observed and alone and sufficient and female, full, as if watched for an instant by God.
~ David Foster Wallace
talent is sort of a dark gift, that talent is its own expectation: it is there from the start and either lived up to or lost.
~ David Foster Wallace
Have a father who lived up to his own promise and then found thing after thing to meet and surpass the expectations of his promise in, and didn't seem just a whole hell of a lot happier or tighter wrapped than his own failed father, leaving you yourself in a kind of feral and flux-ridden state with respect to talent.
~ David Foster Wallace
That having sex with someone you do not care for feels lonelier than not having sex in the first place, afterward.
~ David Foster Wallace
Ten un padre cuyo propio padre perdió lo que estaba ahí. Ten un padre que cumplió su propia promesa y luego encontró una cosa tras otra y superó las expectativas de su propia promesa y no pareció estar mucho más feliz ni más seguro que su propio padre fracasado, dejándote en una especie de estado salvaje y de encrucijada de flujos con respecto al talento.
~ David Foster Wallace
L'odio che provi a fine giornata per tutto il lavoro è semplicemente parte del lavoro
~ David Foster Wallace
What if, Veals's spokeswoman ruminated aloud, what if the viewer could become her/his own programming director; what if s/he could define the very entertainment-happiness it was her/his right to pursue?
~ David Foster Wallace
desire is the sugar in human food.
~ David Foster Wallace
Nel momento in cui riconosceva quello che c'era su una cartuccia provava la sensazione carica d'ansia che ci fosse qualcosa di meglio su un'altra cartuccia e che potenzialmente se lo stava perdendo. Poi si rese conto che avrebbe avuto tutto il tempo di godersi ogni cartuccia e capì intellettualmente che non aveva senso provare il panico di perdersi qualcosa.
~ David Foster Wallace
Perversamente, a menudo es más divertido querer algo que poseerlo
~ David Foster Wallace
El odio que se siente por el trabajo al final del día no es más que una parte del trabajo
~ David Foster Wallace
The rest of them drink something else: they drink promises. They drink hope. And I've got it to hand them.
~ Unknown
Ah! Vanitas Vanitatum! which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
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~ William Morris
Future? Homer said. He was a little embarrassed because all his life, from day to day, he had been busy mapping out a future, even if it was only a future for the next day. Well, he said, I don't know for sure, but I guess I'd like to be somebody some day.
~ William Saroyan
What the hell are they all looking for? A way out. A way to the right way out. A way to leave. A way to go. A way to have had it, to have had enough of it, to be done with it. A decent way to give it all over to the giver of it all
~ William Saroyan
You abandon most readily those works that have no destination other than your own wishes; there is no editor or producer standing there waiting for them... I've told every young writer I know to do the job all the way through even if they think it's no good. Then they'll have the precedent of having finished work.
~ William Saroyan
All's well that ends well.
~ William Shakespeare
My Crown is in my heart, not on my head: Not deck'd with Diamonds, and Indian stones: Nor to be seen: my Crown is call'd Content, A Crown it is, that seldom Kings enjoy.
~ William Shakespeare