Quotes About Opinion

Teachers assign it, and parents are happy because their kids are reading something of 'quality.' But it's forcing kids to read books like that that make them think they hate reading.

If something is good and universally acknowledged to be so, this is not reason enough to dislike it.

People like what they like, and that's the great and terrible thing.

Infinite Jest is an endurance contest. You manage to get through it and you have no choice but to say you like it.

The one real fight they'd ever had was over David Foster Wallace.

Sadie the gamer found this scene sexist and strange.

Infinite Jest is an endurance contest. You manage to get through it and you have no choice but to say you like it. Otherwise, you have to deal with the fact that you just wasted weeks of your life

Infinite Jest is a masterpiece," Harvey had said. "Infinite Jest is an endurance contest. You manage to get through it and you have no choice but to say you like it. Otherwise, you have to deal with the fact that you just wasted weeks of your life

I'd argue that most people have terrible taste. When left to their own devices— literally their own devices—they read crap and they don't know the difference.

Infinite Jest is an endurance contest. You manage to get through it and you have no choice but to say you like it. Otherwise, you have to deal with the fact that you just wasted weeks of your life," A.J. had countered. "Style, no substance, my friend.

THAT NIGHT IN BED, A.J. is still talking about the e-reader. "Do you know the real problem with that contraption?

Infinite Jest is an endurance contest. You manage to get through it and you have no choice but to say you like it. Otherwise, you have to deal with the fact that you just wasted weeks of your life," A.J. had countered.

Do you like Moby Dick?" he asks. "I hate it," she says. "And I don't say that about many things. Teachers assign it, and parents are happy because their kids are reading something of 'quality.' But it's forcing kids to read books like that that make them think they hate reading.

Reading's overrated. Look at all the good stuff on television. Stuff like True Blood.

something is good and universally acknowledged to be so, this is not reason enough to dislike it.

Infinite Jest is a masterpiece," Harvey had said. "Infinite Jest is an endurance contest. You manage to get through it and you have no choice but to say you like it. Otherwise, you have to deal with the fact that you just wasted weeks of your life," A.J. had countered.

It was a fine speech from a putz.

Infinite Jest is a masterpiece," Harvey had said. "Infinite Jest is an endurance contest. You manage to get through it and you have no choice but to say you like it. Otherwise, you have to deal with the fact that you just wasted weeks of your life," A.J.

I have told her a hundred times that long, cascading Rapunzel hair is entirely out of fashion, but Alice ignores me. She likes it. Now are you satisfied?" "She sounds delicious," Lucien whispered in her ear. "Might I bring her to Revell Court instead of you?

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.

I think the most un-American thing you can say is "You can't say that."

The most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.

Reputation was everything in the Old South. The opinion of others was a measure of inner worth. Virtue, honor, valor, and respect simply did not exist apart from the view of a man in the minds of other men.