Donald Barthelme Quotes
Top 65 wise famous quotes and sayings by Donald Barthelme
Donald Barthelme Famous Quotes & Sayings
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We are what we have been told about ourselves. We are the sum of the messages we have received. The true messages. The false messages.
-You are killing me."
" -We? Not we. Not in any sense, we. Processes are killing you, not we. Inexorable processes.
" -We? Not we. Not in any sense, we. Processes are killing you, not we. Inexorable processes.
Endings are elusive, middles are nowhere to be found, but worst of all is to begin, to begin, to begin.
It is possible of course that there are no more real men here, on his ball of half-truths, the earth.
I believe that because I had obtained a wife who was made up of wife-signs (beauty, charm, softness, perfume, cookery) I had found love.
The present goal of the individual
in group enterprises is to avoid dominance; leadership is felt to be a character disorder.
in group enterprises is to avoid dominance; leadership is felt to be a character disorder.
The trouble with capturing one is that that original gesture is almost impossible to equal or improve upon.
Is death that which gives meaning to life? And I said, no, life is that which gives meaning to life.
The aim of literature ... is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.
We regarded each other sitting around the breakfast table with its big cardboard boxes of "Fear," "Chix," and "Rats.
Can the life of the time be caught in an advertisement? Is that how it is, really, in the meadows of the world?
The center will not hold if it has been spot-welded by an operator whose deepest concern is not with the weld but with his lottery ticket.
It seemed to proclaim itself a mystery, but one there was no point in solving - an ongoing low-grade mystery.
Take me home," Snow White said. "Take me home instantly. If there is anything worse than being home, it is being out.
Three rebellions ago, the air was fresher. The soft pasting noises of the rebel billposters remind us of Oklahoma, where everything is still the same.