Ben Fountain quote: "I'm ashamed and embarrassed to say that I've read very little of David Foster Wallace's work. It's a huge gap in my education, one of many."

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BEN FOUNTAIN

[Norm said,] 'To all those who argue this war is a mistake, I'd like to point out that we've removed...
BEN FOUNTAIN

Much of life, fatherhood included, is the story of knowledge acquired too late: if only I’d known ...
BEN FOUNTAIN

After Bush was elected in 2004 - please note that I didn't say 're-elected' - and I was ...
BEN FOUNTAIN

The freaking randomness is what wears on you, the difference between life, death, and horribl...
BEN FOUNTAIN

He decides he wants both more or less. He’d like to hang with Beyonce in a nice way, get to know h...
BEN FOUNTAIN

You can deny him, he thought, watching his father across the table. You can hate him, love him, pity...
BEN FOUNTAIN

I took two fiction-writing courses in college and majored in literature. I felt that I had a knack t...
BEN FOUNTAIN

I never listen to music when I'm writing.
BEN FOUNTAIN

The main thing about writing is... writing. Sitting your butt down in the chair and doing the work.
BEN FOUNTAIN

I think I was lucky to come of age in a place and time - the American South in the 1960s and '70...
BEN FOUNTAIN

I think if you spend much time dwelling on influence you can get self-conscious about every line you...
BEN FOUNTAIN

The smartest thing I did in law school: asking my future wife to go out dancing with me. The smartes...
BEN FOUNTAIN

Why?' He kept asking in his sweetly belling voice, its tone as pure as marbles swirled around a crys...
BEN FOUNTAIN

Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good
JOHN FOUNTAIN

I was improvising before I was reading music. I was just trying to play things on the clarinet by ea...
PETE FOUNTAIN

You know, it's funny... when you're making money, people don't think you're playing jazz. Now when y...
PETE FOUNTAIN

You know, it's funny... when you're making money, people don't think you're playing ...
PETE FOUNTAIN

Ben Harper came to us with some gospel songs in mind, and that worked. I thought that was a good ide...
CLARENCE FOUNTAIN

So we started singing, and eventually we began to think we had something special. I thought we could...
CLARENCE FOUNTAIN

We were on the same bill as this other blind group, Jackson Harmony, from Mississippi, ... Well, the...
CLARENCE FOUNTAIN

He has an abundance of energy. He's always had a high energy level.
BOB FOUNTAIN

It's already changed. I notice a difference in the attitudes of the players.
BOB FOUNTAIN

He's interesting, and he's always exploring something new.
BOB FOUNTAIN

What we used to say was whoever had the bow tie got to lead the band. There was never any jealousy.
PETE FOUNTAIN

For better or worse, I've always been ready to change,
CLARENCE FOUNTAIN

That play was a hit from jump street, ... That changed our world forever.
CLARENCE FOUNTAIN

And when you are serving the Lord, you go where he takes you without fear.
CLARENCE FOUNTAIN

We were blind, so everybody was dark to us,
CLARENCE FOUNTAIN

Most of our teachers were white, and the songs that they taught us were white, so when we first star...
CLARENCE FOUNTAIN

All good things must come to an end. But if they decided to go on, I'm not going to stop them.
CLARENCE FOUNTAIN

We did find one that can do pretty good. But he's still not up to par because he can't sing backgrou...
CLARENCE FOUNTAIN

Yeah, it's complicated. It's hard to find a guy that really can sing and is blind,
CLARENCE FOUNTAIN

The launch team did a great job of getting us on our way.
GLEN FOUNTAIN

Yes, we'll all be there.
GLEN FOUNTAIN

Because we have such a long way to go, we put this small spacecraft on one of the largest rockets th...
GLEN FOUNTAIN

There is concern that there could be more lightning with the storms as they progress over the next c...
GRAHAM FOUNTAIN

There is concern there that if that fire does move in a southerly direction under increasingly north...
GRAHAM FOUNTAIN

Unfortunately I don't think it's a case of 'if'. I think that the weather conditions are conducive t...
GRAHAM FOUNTAIN

While temperature will ease overnight the fires will continue to burn and we won't know the real dam...
GRAHAM FOUNTAIN

We're hoping to consolidate (the fires) and certainly the perimeter edges of those fires before the ...
GRAHAM FOUNTAIN

It's not a pleasant Australia Day to be celebrating down here in Victoria with a number of going fir...
GRAHAM FOUNTAIN

She worked out in the weight room a lot last summer and was probably the only one who put in work th...
EARL FOUNTAIN

She's the type that when she got hurt, she went straight to physical therapy getting it better, and ...
EARL FOUNTAIN

This could easily be the season for us, and we're sure it is. It's a game we were in, we had a six-p...
EARL FOUNTAIN

That's what we told them, and we had to win some games, and we beat Gates (County), we beat Manteo, ...
EARL FOUNTAIN

Every game has been this way for us, every game. They're upset, but we drew our own fate, we finishe...
EARL FOUNTAIN

It definitely hurt us in the playoff picture, but I still feel we're capable of beating anyone as we...
EARL FOUNTAIN

It's a very crushing loss for us because it's between 4-4 and 3-5 in the conference. I blame it on m...
EARL FOUNTAIN

They have grown up some and come tournament time we'll get Rebecca back, so we'll be fine. They come...
EARL FOUNTAIN

We haven't had one in a long time. Maybe it's a month or it seems like a month. A win is a win, and ...
EARL FOUNTAIN

That's looks a little more like the way the Trojans ought to play. We played more like we're capable...
HUGH FOUNTAIN

The key is aggressiveness. You have to be aggressive because you know Stanhope is going to be. You h...
HUGH FOUNTAIN

We're fighting for a playoff spot. We're fighting to keep a winning season. We've had seven consecut...
HUGH FOUNTAIN

We've just got to do what we do best.
HUGH FOUNTAIN

Defensively, they're a very good team.
HUGH FOUNTAIN

Last year, we were playing for a region championship. This time we're fighting for our region life.
HUGH FOUNTAIN

If our seniors don't play well we don't win that football game. I also think our coaches did a good ...
HUGH FOUNTAIN

He's had a great season. He's always been a player who gets better as the year goes on.
HUGH FOUNTAIN

That was a huge win for our players. It still gives us a shot at the playoffs. The thing about the w...
HUGH FOUNTAIN

We're both in pretty similar circumstances right now. We will be hungry - and I'm sure they will be,...
HUGH FOUNTAIN

He was one of the best trumpet players all around the world. He had everything -- technique, stamina...
PETE FOUNTAIN

When I have to choose between voting for the people or the special interests, I always stick with th...
HENRY FOUNTAIN ASHURST

No man is fit to be a Senator... unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great prin...
HENRY FOUNTAIN ASHURST

Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don't sit around and call each other names...
BEN CARSON

If we plant the right seeds, tomorrow will be better. If you put out good things, then you'll ge...
BEN VEREEN

You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going ...
BEN CARSON

I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at tha...
BEN MENDELSOHN

I basically sat around unemployed in Sydney for three years straight, and the two things that saved ...
BEN MENDELSOHN

The way that actors talk about acting is generally quite punishing, and I think actors want to put f...
BEN MENDELSOHN

My favorite-ever version of 'King Lear' is the 1971 film by Peter Brooks. He has this enormo...
BEN MENDELSOHN

I think some of my favorite Australian films were shot by people that are not Australian. And I thin...
BEN MENDELSOHN

Fassbender is fearless; he's a fearless actor.
BEN MENDELSOHN

Typically, I'll wake up at 4:30 in the morning. It's just the continual jet lag residue, jus...
BEN MENDELSOHN

I had a pretty good career at home. What keeps you going is not having a plan B. It's a very goo...
BEN MENDELSOHN

'Star Wars' is populated by so many great types; who wouldn't want to be a Han Solo kind...
BEN MENDELSOHN

The thing about home is that it's a tough place to sustain a career, just by dent of the size of...
BEN MENDELSOHN

I never felt like someone who was boyish and coming to terms with asking girls out or anything like ...
BEN MENDELSOHN

I remember 'The Yearling' was the first film I ever saw, and my mom told me I cried for abou...
BEN MENDELSOHN

The people I've encountered who are really dangerous in my life don't go around with their f...
BEN MENDELSOHN

Before 'Animal Kingdom,' I wasn't particularly thought of in villainous roles.
BEN MENDELSOHN

I like to call up ghosts of things past for myself when I'm working a lot.
BEN MENDELSOHN

'Animal Kingdom' is a significant comet, and it's cast a tail. It's very hard to see...
BEN MENDELSOHN

'Animal Kingdom' is a lot of things, but it's not heartwarming.
BEN MENDELSOHN

The very rough story is this: Melbourne boy, out of both my parents' houses at a young age, live...
BEN MENDELSOHN

Acting is a bit of a heart and soul exercise with me. It's kind of all I've got.
BEN MENDELSOHN

I think now there's much more of a confessional culture. That's not my bag. I come from a sl...
BEN MENDELSOHN

You can certainly extend your adolescence. There's people that are very good at extending it ind...
BEN MENDELSOHN

You think of 'Outlaw Josey Wales,' you immediately think of the old Indian guy, Sondra Locke...
BEN MENDELSOHN

As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there.
BEN MENDELSOHN

It's good to surf whatever waves are going on right there as they're happening.
BEN MENDELSOHN

I don't believe in the transformation myth, where if you have more success, life changes for you...
BEN MENDELSOHN

We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was st...
BEN OKRI

It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression.
BEN SHAPIRO

Economic science concerns itself primarily with theoretical and empirical generalizations about the ...
BEN BERNANKE

Each new day has a different shape to it. You just roll with it.
BEN ZOBRIST

People rely on Wikipedia, and a lot of it is wrong. But because there it is on the Internet, they as...
BEN MEZRICH

Science has authority, not because of white coats, or titles, but because of precision and transpare...
BEN GOLDACRE

Journalism is a craft that takes years to learn. It's like golf. You never get it right all the ...
BEN HUH

One of the things I've learned is to be receptive of feedback.
BEN SILBERMANN

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from ...
BEN OKRI

No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don't fight it. I fee...
BEN CARSON

Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. An...
BEN CARSON

I grew up with an older brother, and the bond between siblings is unlike anything else, and it can b...
BEN SCHNETZER

Distrust of government isn't baseless cynicism. It's realism.
BEN SHAPIRO

The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where the...
BEN OKRI

I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like preci...
BEN WHISHAW

Entrepreneurs may be brutally honest, but fostering relationships with partners and building endurin...
BEN PARR

Among other objectives, liquidity guidelines must take into account the risks that inadequate liquid...
BEN BERNANKE

Most of these people are not going anywhere, and have nothing meaningful to do. They are zombies see...
BEN HINSON

I was born Moishe Ketzelbourd but the Indians call me Maurice Cougar.
BEN KATCHOR

I studied politics and economics at Bristol, and people always assumed that I'd go into politics...
BEN ELLIOT

Together we were something less, which felt like such a relief, to not be ourselves for a while.
BEN MARCUS

Obama wants to raise the issue of immigration reform so that he can demonize Republicans as anti-His...
BEN SHAPIRO

President Obama has only had two major policy victories during his tenure: the stimulus package and ...
BEN SHAPIRO

Same-sex marriage is not the final nail in the coffin for traditional marriage. It is just another r...
BEN SHAPIRO

Hillary Clinton is not that fascinating a person. According to those who have spent time with her, s...
BEN SHAPIRO

The Left despises Texas, with its stellar record of job growth; Texas, with its strong support for t...
BEN SHAPIRO

Selective Biblical quotation is a favorite of leftists who interpret the Bible the same way they do ...
BEN SHAPIRO

President Obama is one of the great political knife-fighters in modern history. He is a failed presi...
BEN SHAPIRO

There are times that everyone hates his or her job. Were they freed from the economic consequences o...
BEN SHAPIRO

I love bummer songs.
BEN GIBBARD

There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everybody go along to get a...
BEN CARSON

I hate the whole reluctant sex-symbol thing. It's such bull. You see these dudes greased up, in ...
BEN AFFLECK

Roy was just another bureaucrat to me, but I realized very soon that without Roy this thing would ha...
BEN SHAHN

The European style of living is seductive: fewer hours worked, more hours at the cafe, less concern ...
BEN SHAPIRO

I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up ...
BEN NELSON

From day one, musical theater was my bread and butter.
BEN PLATT

'The Butler' has virtually nothing in common with its source material, the life of White Hou...
BEN SHAPIRO

If you put me in charge of the medical research budget, I would cancel all primary research, I would...
BEN GOLDACRE

We live in a country that used to have a can-do attitude, and now we have a 'what-can-you-do-for...
BEN CARSON

I've finally learnt how to say, 'No comment'. To appear in the tabloids is a real learni...
BEN AFFLECK

Monetary policy is a blunt tool which certainly affects the distribution of income and wealth, altho...
BEN BERNANKE

In our culture, we get very much into shorthanding people. And I got shorthanded as That Guy: Jennif...
BEN AFFLECK

We've turned film into such an industry that we pursue naturalism just by shaking the camera and...
BEN FOSTER

The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
BEN JOHNSON

When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle t...
BEN HECHT

I want Pinterest to be human. The Internet's still so abstract... To me, boards are a very human...
BEN SILBERMANN

There are millions of Americans who belong by nature in movie theaters as they belong at political r...
BEN HECHT

We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the m...
BEN CARSON

I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stor...
BEN KINGSLEY

This figure that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut, Wherein the graver ha...
BEN JONSON

A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth.
BEN JONSON

A third Cato has dropped from the skies.
BEN JONSON

A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.
BEN JONSON

Frugality is the mother of all virtues.
BEN JONSON

It will never come out of the flesh that's bred in the bone.
BEN JONSON

A countenance inconceivably forbidding.
BEN JONSON

To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Be...
BEN OKRI

With every inch of land on Earth now catalogued by our satellites, the stars are the next place we a...
BEN PARR

The decline in home equity makes it more difficult for struggling homeowners to refinance and reduce...
BEN BERNANKE

Banks need to continue to lend to creditworthy borrowers to earn a profit and remain strong.
BEN BERNANKE

Home purchases that are very highly leveraged or unaffordable subject the borrower and lender to a g...
BEN BERNANKE

There are other people in 'Dreamgirls' who are born-again Christians. We have a Bible study ...
BEN HARNEY

Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy ...
BEN JONSON

Since my boyhood, I have sought always to please, but out of a kindness in me, never out of fear or ...
BEN HECHT

Economics is not brain surgery.
BEN CARSON

Happiness is a journey not a destination.
BEN SWEETLAND

You look like gold. I've been fooled before, but now I know I've made the mistake in the pas...
BEN HARPER

If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on educa...
BEN CARSON

Success is a journey, not a destination.
BEN SWEETLAND

We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.
BEN WEININGER

No one will do it for you.
BEN STEIN

I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.
BEN KINGSLEY

I lost my own son (Steven) at 18, five years ago, in a car accident, so I can really sympathize with...
BEN HECHT

People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less critic...
BEN HECHT

I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony.
BEN HECHT

In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a bro...
BEN HECHT

Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety
BEN HECHT

Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravo...
BEN HECHT

Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.
BEN HECHT

Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
BEN HECHT

Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.
BEN HECHT

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the...
BEN HECHT

There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere. There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tort...
BEN STEIN

I was tempted to tell her it was because we were British and actually had a sense of humour, but I t...
BEN AARONOVITCH

But I do hate him as I hate the devil.
BEN JONSON

You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot
BEN STEIN

If he were To be made honest by an act of parliament I should not alter in my faith of him.
BEN JONSON

Laugh, and be fat, sir, your penance is known. They that love mirth, let them heartily drink, ...
BEN JONSON

Genius without education is like silver in the mine. -Ben Franklin.
BEN FRANKLIN

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
BEN FRANKLIN

It's just kind of surreal. We're trying not to think too far ahead but we know we have a lot of work...
BEN LINDSEY

than any other man who ever ran for office in Denver.
BEN LINDSEY

Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something ha...
BEN LINDSEY

Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something h...
BEN LINDSEY

Do your best and let God do the rest.
BEN CARSON

Force works on servile natures, not the free.
BEN JOHNSON

Opportunities pop up for everybody all of the time. It's the way that we progress. It's whether or n...
BEN BROWN

We want books that make our hearts beat harder... that relieve us of the agonizing burden of everyda...
BEN OLIVEIRA

Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
BEN OKRI

Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.
BEN CARSON

'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to beg...
BEN JONSON

Bad people excuse their faults; wise people leave them.
BEN JOHNSTON

Wonder if there is life on another planet? Let's suppose there is. Suppose further, that only one st...
BEN SWEETLAND

The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could become.
BEN HERBSTER

Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.
BEN STEIN

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.
BEN HECHT

You've got to make haste while it's still light of day. My godmother used to say, I don't want to ru...
BEN VEREEN

Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
BEN JOHNSON

I'm ashamed and embarrassed to say that I've read very little of David Foster Wallace's work. It's a huge gap in my education, one of many.

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I'm ashamed and embarrassed to say that I've read very little of David Foster Wallace's work. It's a huge gap in my education, one of many.

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