Mario Incandenza Quotes

#1. If you're poor old Mario Incandenza you take your competitive strokes where you can find them.

David Foster Wallace

#2. Hal Incandenza has an almost obsessive dislike for deLint, whom he tells Mario he sometimes cannot quite believe is even real, and tries to get to the side of, to see whether deLint has a true z coordinate or is just a cutout or projection.

David Foster Wallace

#3. Great parts produce great vices as well as virtues.

Plato

#4. People doing something that seems to them natural and necessary. At least, one of them is doing what seems natural and necessary, and the other believes that the important thing is for that person to be free, to go ahead. They understand that other people

Alice Munro

#5. She remembered something that am old boyfriend had said to her. One that she didn't want to let go of at the time. One person can't be happy enough for the both of us

Chris Manby

#6. Life is about women, gigs, an' bein' creative.

Harvey Pekar

#7. Moderation, the noblest gift of Heaven.

Euripides

#8. I am ready for whatever's coming. I expect nothing but to be let down or turned away. I am alone. Goddamn. The shit hurts sometimes, but I realize what I am, what I have become.

Henry Rollins

#9. Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.

Mark Twain

#10. I want to believe that those who have been appointed to accomplish this mission will be totally committed, devoting all their skills and determination to their work. I urge you to lend them your support so that, together, we can build that bright future worthy of our country.

Paul Biya

#11. Step in. The place is empty - completely empty. We find ourselves

E.L. James

#12. You want to prove you never stopped loving me?" She got up and stared down at me. "Start by trusting me with the truth.

Lisa Kessler

#13. Here is how to handle being a feral prodigy.

David Foster Wallace

#14. She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

George Meredith

#15. Those heavily invested in the status quo had difficulty thinking outside of it - and were often tainted by it.

Daniel Suarez