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Top 20 David Lipsky Quotes (2025 Update)

David Lipsky Quote: “And I think that the ultimate way you and I get lucky is if you have some success early in life, you get to find out early it doesn’t mean anything. Which means you get to start early the work of figuring out what does mean something – David Foster Wallace.”

1. “And I think that the ultimate way you and I get lucky is if you have some success early in life, you get to find out early it doesn’t mean anything. Which means you get to start early the work of figuring out what does mean something – David Foster Wallace.”

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David Lipsky Quote: “David Foster Wallace: It just makes me a person that’s really exhausted a couple other ways to live, you know? And really taken them, taken them to their conclusion. Which for me was a pink room, with no furniture and a drain in the center of the floor.”

2. “David Foster Wallace: It just makes me a person that’s really exhausted a couple other ways to live, you know? And really taken them, taken them to their conclusion. Which for me was a pink room, with no furniture and a drain in the center of the floor.”

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David Lipsky Quote: “I’m not sure we’re any better, but able to describe the attempt to track our wandering in circles in a way that perhaps somebody else can identify with. I don’t think writers are any smarter than other people. I think they may be more compelling in their stupidity, or in their confusion.”

3. “I’m not sure we’re any better, but able to describe the attempt to track our wandering in circles in a way that perhaps somebody else can identify with. I don’t think writers are any smarter than other people. I think they may be more compelling in their stupidity, or in their confusion.”

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David Lipsky Quote: “I always fear that when I really impose my will on something, the universe is gonna punish me.”

4. “I always fear that when I really impose my will on something, the universe is gonna punish me.”

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David Lipsky Quote: “My ambition is to not embarrass myself – which, if you know me, is a pretty serious ambition.”

5. “My ambition is to not embarrass myself – which, if you know me, is a pretty serious ambition.”

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David Lipsky Quote: “David thought books existed to stop you from feeling lonely.”

6. “David thought books existed to stop you from feeling lonely.”

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David Lipsky Quote: “I think what we need is seriously engaged art, that can teach again that we’re smart. And that there’s stuff that TV and movies – although they’re great at certain things – cannot give us.”

7. “I think what we need is seriously engaged art, that can teach again that we’re smart. And that there’s stuff that TV and movies – although they’re great at certain things – cannot give us.”

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David Lipsky Quote: “I think the reason why people behave in an ugly manner is that it’s really scary to be alive and to be human, and people are really really afraid.”

8. “I think the reason why people behave in an ugly manner is that it’s really scary to be alive and to be human, and people are really really afraid.”

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David Lipsky Quote: “Because the technology is just gonna get better and better and better and better. And it’s gonna get easier and easier, and more and more convenient, and more and more pleasurable, to be alone with images on a screen, given to us by people who do not love us but want our money. Which is all right. In low doses, right? But if that’s the basic main staple of your diet, you’re gonna die. In a meaningful way, you’re going to die.”

9. “Because the technology is just gonna get better and better and better and better. And it’s gonna get easier and easier, and more and more convenient, and more and more pleasurable, to be alone with images on a screen, given to us by people who do not love us but want our money. Which is all right. In low doses, right? But if that’s the basic main staple of your diet, you’re gonna die. In a meaningful way, you’re going to die.”

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David Lipsky Quote: “I’m talking about the number of privileged, highly intelligent, motivated career-track people that I know, from my high school or college, who are, if you look into their eyes, empty and miserable.”

10. “I’m talking about the number of privileged, highly intelligent, motivated career-track people that I know, from my high school or college, who are, if you look into their eyes, empty and miserable.”

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David Lipsky Quote: “The point of books was to combat loneliness.”

11. “The point of books was to combat loneliness.”

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David Lipsky Quote: “But one of them has to do with the sense of, the sense of capturing, capturing what the world feels like to us, in the sort of way that I think that a reader can tell “Another sensibility like mine exists.”

12. “But one of them has to do with the sense of, the sense of capturing, capturing what the world feels like to us, in the sort of way that I think that a reader can tell “Another sensibility like mine exists.”

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David Lipsky Quote: “It’s just much easier with dogs. You don’t get laid; but you also don’t get the feeling you’re hurting their feelings all the time.”

13. “It’s just much easier with dogs. You don’t get laid; but you also don’t get the feeling you’re hurting their feelings all the time.”

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David Lipsky Quote: “Entertainment’s chief job is to make you so riveted by it that you can’t tear your eyes away, so the advertisers can advertise.”

14. “Entertainment’s chief job is to make you so riveted by it that you can’t tear your eyes away, so the advertisers can advertise.”

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David Lipsky Quote: “Because we’re gonna get so interested in entertainment that we’re not gonna want to do the work that generates the income that buys the products that pays for the advertising that disseminates the entertainment.”

15. “Because we’re gonna get so interested in entertainment that we’re not gonna want to do the work that generates the income that buys the products that pays for the advertising that disseminates the entertainment.”

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David Lipsky Quote: “Yeah, there’s stuff that really good fiction can do that other forms of art can’t do as well. And the big thing, the big thing seems to be, sort of leapin’ over that wall of self, and portraying inner experience. And setting up, I think, a kind of intimate conversation between two consciences.”

16. “Yeah, there’s stuff that really good fiction can do that other forms of art can’t do as well. And the big thing, the big thing seems to be, sort of leapin’ over that wall of self, and portraying inner experience. And setting up, I think, a kind of intimate conversation between two consciences.”

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David Lipsky Quote: “The way to finish the book is to turn down the volume on the stuff that’s all about how other people react.”

17. “The way to finish the book is to turn down the volume on the stuff that’s all about how other people react.”

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David Lipsky Quote: “I finished and e-mailed to myself to see what it’d read like to open, and decided it looked a little loopy and that I’d been the right person to open it after all. I read him, thought about him, and I never saw him again except on television once.”

18. “I finished and e-mailed to myself to see what it’d read like to open, and decided it looked a little loopy and that I’d been the right person to open it after all. I read him, thought about him, and I never saw him again except on television once.”

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David Lipsky Quote: “What’s the use of having developed a science well enough to make predictions, if in the end all we’re willing to do is stand around and wait for them to come true? – DR. SHERWOOD ROWLAND.”

19. “What’s the use of having developed a science well enough to make predictions, if in the end all we’re willing to do is stand around and wait for them to come true? – DR. SHERWOOD ROWLAND.”

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David Lipsky Quote: “The story this book tells is about the people who made our world; then the people who realized there might be a problem; then the people who lied about that problem.”

20. “The story this book tells is about the people who made our world; then the people who realized there might be a problem; then the people who lied about that problem.”

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David Lipsky Quote: “In one of Updike’s stories about Henry Bech, someone tells the novelist that his books “are weeping, but there are no tears.” “Troubling Love” is soggy with tears – and the blank mood that follows a good long cry – but you can’t isolate the source of the weeping.”

21. “In one of Updike’s stories about Henry Bech, someone tells the novelist that his books “are weeping, but there are no tears.” “Troubling Love” is soggy with tears – and the blank mood that follows a good long cry – but you can’t isolate the source of the weeping.”

— David Lipsky

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