What if, when Tracy Austin writes that after her 1989 car crash, 'I quickly accepted that there was nothing I could do about it,' the statement is not only true but exhaustively descriptive of the entire acceptance process she went through?
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Related Jealousy? Not at all. Sad, if anything, I thought. There is nothing she has that I could possibly wa... REBECCA LOOS We talked about it and I told her she is here to get through school. I told her I would take her any... BILL HANDER David (David Foster Wallace) had a caffeine social gift: Her was charmingly, vividly, overwhelmingly... DAVID LIPSKY When I did that interview with Hepburn, the only ground rule was, you did not discuss Spencer Tracy.... MORLEY SAFER She hates playing bad. She went through a time there when she really struggled with her putting and ... JULI INKSTER I'm not saying that television is vulgar and dumb because the people who compose the Audience are vu... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY ….Nothing was inevitable. She had not chosen this way. It was her fate. It had been decided since ... LAURIE MATTHEW I came out and saw the girl stumbling out of the car. I asked her if she was OK. She said yeah. She ... JULIE GILBERT I am a huge fan of Adrian Piper: how she works, how she reveals her process in the work, how she wri... JASON MORAN If I thought that was true, I could almost live with the rest of it.” “It is true,” I admit. �... SUZANNE COLLINS I'm totally into Taylor Swift. I think she has super-clever lyrics, and I love that she writes h... KATHLEEN HANNA The character who was like me he died at 46, even it was 2008 year so far his name was David Foster ... DEYTH BANGER This is a girl who wants to do things herself, who after everything she went through wouldn't even t... JUDY THOMPSON The reality is that dying isn’t bad, but it takes forever. And that forever is no time at all. I k... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Stephen King is Cervantes compared with David Foster Wallace. We have no standards left. HAROLD BLOOM The most frightening blazing anger was alive in her now. It was not only Elizabeth that she could ha... WINSTON GRAHAM She could not picture it. Herself riding on the subway or streetcar, caring for new horses, talking ... ALICE MUNRO All I could do is lie there and think about how much her voice changed when she asked me if she was ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY But even though she was attractive, there was something else about her that caught his eye. She was ... NICHOLAS SPARKS When badminton was accepted into the Barcelona Olympic Games it showed that there was an acceptance ... RHONDA CATOR The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She wa... RALPH WALDO EMERSON I remember when it happened she didn't know where her father or her aunts or her grandmother was and... JANICE WILLIAMS Then I looked right at Mama, for the first time in what seemed like forever, and she wasn't looking ... KATHERINE HANNIGAN What we've heard with the whole transfer process was that it was pushed through very quickly . . . t... MAVIS TAILLIEU What she hadn't realized was that sometimes when your vision was that sharp and true, it could cut y... JODI PICOULT To her, it was like asking a butterfly what it remembered about being a caterpillar. She could fly n... THOMM QUACKENBUSH I'm ashamed and embarrassed to say that I've read very little of David Foster Wallace's ... BEN FOUNTAIN I was kind of stuck in that place where the only thing I could write about was through the perspecti... BEN JORGENSEN Only one thing is certain -- that is, nothing is certain. If this statement is true, it is also fals... ANCIENT PARADOX I watched her hit balls, and after the first swing I knew that she could do it. I was standing there... GARY GILCHRIST Supongo que ser tímido significa básicamente estar absorbido por uno mismo hasta el punto de que s... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE When you look at the stronger (applications), they are very, very descriptive in what they're doing.... MICHAEL DIXON She was, if anything, on the plain side, at least not the type to attract men wherever she went. But... HARUKI MURAKAMI And I wanted to cry out at her that I could not put the body apart from the soul, and that the comfo... ROBERT MCAFEE BROWN There is nothing but water in the holy pools. I know, I have been swimming there. All the gods sculp... KABIR I knew that our time together was almost over, I asked her if she liked sports, she asked me if I li... JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER And Abigail hasted, and arose and rode upon an ass, with five damsels of hers that went after her; a... BIBLE But there was a difference in their hardness and hers and just what the difference was, she could no... MARGARET MITCHELL A woman in her thirties came to see me. As she greeted me, I could sense the pain behind her polite ... ECKHART TOLLE I had always suspected that one could build an entire house from what went into the landfill, and, s... DAN PHILLIPS I always knew about Marshall University; I always knew about the crash. What I didn't know is what h... BASIL IWANYK That would be a nightmare for me to have to replace Val. Bethany Hart was ready. I know she could ha... SHAUNA ROHBOCK When you drive a car, either you manage it and feel it with the grip of the car, or, like me, you fi... JEAN ALESI I talked to her about it. She said that it was the best thing that could have happened to her. When ... SIR RICHARD BRANSON I asked her what was so scary about unmerited free grace? She replied something like this: "If I was... TIMOTHY J. KELLER That really, really got her down and she became more ill after that. There was anxiety and pressure ... IAIN MCKIE It is true I had been successful on a small scale in overcoming one of the main difficulties in the ... HENRY BESSEMER I was cautious in what I said before the young lady; for I could not be sure that she was sane; and,... EDGAR ALLAN POE Losing Sarah and my boy was the hardest thing I've ever lived through. But even then, you see, I kne... JENNIFER ASHLEY I spoke to a woman who had seen her son run over by a car. She went to one of these damn therapists ... KAREN BLACK She was in the water. She watched it happen. There was nothing that nobody could do, ANN MARSH Later on Lady Maccon was to describe that particular day as the worst of her life. She had neither t... GAIL CARRIGER She writes things with her movements that I for the life of me could never write with a pen. CHRISTOPHER POINDEXTER Well, thought Winnie, crossing her arms on the windowsill, she was different. Things had happ... NATALIE BABBITT The entire quest is for acceptance. You run from pillar to post for being accepted as you are. This ... NEELAM SAXENA CHANDRA We stared at each other for several moments, neither of us speaking or moving, and then I was in fro... JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT Midland City had a goddess of discord all its own. This was a goddess who could not dance, would not... KURT VONNEGUT Even the dry and dusty arid desert air could not get her sweet perfume out of his nostrils. That one... VIRGINIA ALISON What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of ju... G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of ju... GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Her doctors could not believe she was still alive and functioning as well as she was. She was really... ALLISON BAILEY Her face felt like it was scattered in pieces and she could not keep it straight. The feeling was a ... CARSON MCCULLERS When I was younger, I used to pray that I would die before my mom. That's just how much my mom m... DAK PRESCOTT It was slow motion. I just saw her going down and there was nothing I could do about it because ther... KRISTOPHER SMITH I kept wondering then — I'm still wondering now — if there was a time when she realizes that som... NINA LACOUR She was above everybody's top game. She played above her potential, and she always played at a highe... CIP SANCHEZ And I find myself saying, “It wasn’t really about her.” And finding it’s true. Wh... DAVID LEVITHAN The mission statement of the RSC is to foster a constitutionally bound limited government, it's ... BILL FLORES From my foster parents, the Deans, I received the love that was ultimately to strengthen me, even wh... WALTER DEAN MYERS It started when I moved into a vegetarian co-op back in the '70s, and that's really when I h... JOHN MACKEY Even after the dehadhyas (the belief that 'I am the body') has gone, people will say, "I saw you eat... DADA BHAGWAN I would have told her then she was the only thing that I could love in this dying world but th... MARILYN MONROE When the suggestion was made that I might consider doing music of Joni Mitchell, I thought it was a ... HERBIE HANCOCK He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting ... AYN RAND Don’t look at me like that, I see those pink cheeks when you talk about him,” she observed. “I... BEVERLY L. ANDERSON I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON The day she realised, it was not about the world but was all about her, she grew the wings. The day ... AKSHAY VASU She went because he claimed he could offer her something Mom and Dad couldn't. I think he brainwashe... CANDACE THOMSEN I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played th... MADELEINE PEYROUX Another distinguished critic has agreed with Gide--that old lady in the anecdote who was accused by ... E. M. FORSTER She hated that will had this effect on her. Hated it. She knew better. She knew what he thought of h... CASSANDRA CLARE Conventional wisdom has always supported that when there is a crash with a large truck and a car, it... IAN GROSSMAN We know Jodie Foster is a smart woman. But it's always tough for women to find leading roles in comm... LEONARD MALTIN What made more sense was that the bargain she was bound to was to go on living as she had been doing... ALICE MUNRO She was in a bit of a state and needed to know that I was OK. She managed to get a message to me say... PETE DOHERTY She beat me pretty good. That was the first time I saw her with a basketball in her hands. I quickly... BRENT HINTZ They said she could not do it. But she didn’t listen so when she did it. And when they stood in aw... TONI SORENSON You had every right to be. He raised his eyes to look at her and she was suddenly and strangely remi... CASSANDRA CLARE She didn’t understand why it was happening,” he said. “I had to tell her she would die. Her so... JOHN GREEN This was our house. Mine and hers. I know she’d sneak over to the rectory every once in a while an... TIFFANY REISZ A family in my sister's neighborhood was recently stricken with a double tragedy, when both the youn... ELIZABETH GILBERT I say that I found peace. I do not say that I was not lonely. I was--terribly. I do not say that I d... ELISABETH ELLIOT It was pointed out ... that the U.S. statement is not only unwarranted and misplaced, but is tantamo... MASOOD KHAN After she made the free throw and (Monroe) called timeout, I asked her if that made up for all the t... RANDALL EDENS He opened his mouth. The words were there. He was about to say them when a jolt of terror went throu... CASSANDRA CLARE I guess when she did what she did, she did not realize what we were going to think could of happened... MARIA PARTON When I was a kid, I used to fantasize about death. Not that I was suicidal, but there was an attract... CONOR OBERST My mom started smoking when she was 11. She went to the hill next door to try her first cigarette. S... LONI ANDERSON
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DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Trying to be anti-cool is just one exponent off trying to be cool -- it's the same beast. DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Then he looked up, despite all best prior intentions. In four minutes, it would be another hour; a h... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE ...you are excused from doing the work of constructing the fantasy. The ads do it for you. The ads, ... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE The key is the ability, whether innate or conditioned, to find the other side of the rote, the picay... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Advertising that makes fun of itself is so powerful because it implicitly congratulates both it... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE This appetite to choose death by pleasure if it is available to choose - this appetite of your peopl... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Lenore, it's simply that I love you. You know that. Every fiber of your being is loved by every fibe... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Supongo que ser tímido significa básicamente estar absorbido por uno mismo hasta el punto de que s... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE If you can think of times in your life that you've treated people with extraordinary decency and lov... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Eyes the broad-shouldered faceless character that symbolizes Men’s Room, does Sternberg, and strug... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE When something large and oncoming passed, the windshield's big rectangle was for a moment incandesce... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE I am fortunately an entirely handsome devil and appear even younger than twenty-nine. I look like a ... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE But and so things are slow, and like you they have this irritating suspicion that any real satisfact... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Sometimes, when I don't think about it, I think I have just totally escaped the Bad Thing, and that ... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE If I’m hanging out with you, I can’t even tell whether I like you or not because I’m too worri... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE I'm not saying that television is vulgar and dumb because the people who compose the Audience are vu... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE JAY: No really. Be secure. Pretend I'm a sperm cell. Here. I take the string out of the... hood of m... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE The reasons that center on others are easy to manipulate. All hollow things are light. DAVID FOSTER WALLACE It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms nearly always shoo... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Te occidere possunt sed te edere possunt nefas est. DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Il suicidio è così contrario a tanti nostri istinti e impulsi programmati che nessuno sano di ment... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Blue Springs Memorial Hospital Palliative Care Unit, Independence, Mo. DAVID FOSTER WALLACE The truth is you've already heard this. That this is what it's like. That it's what makes room for t... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE It is a fact of life that certain people are corrosive to others’ self esteem simply as a function... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE She smelled of talcum powder and Big Red. DAVID FOSTER WALLACE It's not that words or human language stop having any meaning or relevance after you die, by the way... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE ...this was depressing, much the way discovering that somebody is easy to manipulate is always a lit... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE The fraud part of me was always there, just as a puzzle piece, objectively speaking, is a true piece... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE I don't think he was used to patients who were already aware of what their real problem was. He was ... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE The almost-35-year-old Terry Schmidt had very nearly nothing left anymore of the delusion that he di... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE -when he thinks of the starry-eyed puerility and narcissism of these fantasies now, a rough decade l... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE *One clue that there’s something not quite real about sequential time the way you experience it i... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Atwater knew — as did everyone at Style, though by some strange unspoken consensus it was never sa... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE The reality is that dying isn’t bad, but it takes forever. And that forever is no time at all. I k... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE (..)-Dr. G. would later say that the whole "my whole life flashed before me" phenomenon at the end i... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Even as I wrote my note to Fern, for instance, expressing sentiments and regrets that were real, a p... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE If I understand you right,' he says, 'you're saying that you're basically a calculating manipulative... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE It is a fact of life that certain people are corrosive to others' self esteem simply as a function o... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE What teachers and the administration in that era never seemed to see was that the mental work of wha... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE The truth is you already know what it's like. You already know the difference between the size and s... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Hell hath no fury like a coolly received postmodernist. DAVID FOSTER WALLACE You know, the whole thing about perfectionism. The perfectionism is very dangerous. Because of cours... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE When he smoked marijuana he tended to masterbate a great deal. DAVID FOSTER WALLACE I like the fans’ sound at night. Do you? It’s like somebody big far away goes like: it’sOKit�... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words. DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Here is how to turn down an extramural date so you won't be asked again. Say something like I'm terr... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE the patriotic or religious bumper stickers always seem to be on the biggest, most disgustingly selfi... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE This, of course, is because today’s postfeminist era is also today’s postmodern era, in which su... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE You don’t have to think very hard to realize that our dread of both relationships and loneliness �... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fac... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still 'are' human beings, now. Or can be. DAVID FOSTER WALLACE