Donald Barthelme Quotes
-Is it permitted to differ with Kierkegaard? -Not only permitted but necessary. If you love him.
Quotes to Explore
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In 'A Boy's Own Story' and 'Jack Holmes and His Friend,' my idea was to take someone totally different from my real self and, at the same time, to assign to him my own life trajectory.
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I like to fight, and I think the fans want to see a good fight, too.
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Religion doesn't play any part in my life in terms of how I live my life. But I don't think I've ever gone through a day in my life without hearing someone say the word 'Jew' or saying it myself.
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Since the 1980s, we've been living in this era, really, of corporate rule, based on this idea that the role of government is to liberate the power of capital so that they can have as much economic growth as quickly as possible, and then all good things will flow from that.
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Thrillers provide the reader with a safe escape into a dangerous world where the stakes are as high as can be imagined with unpredictable outcomes. It's a perfect genre in which to explore hard issues of good and evil, a mirror that allows the reader to see both the good and not so good in themselves.
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I had a really dark time after the Olympic Games... But then I said to myself, 'This is a sport that's blessed me with a home, with an education, with some money. I can't hate this sport. This sport took me out of Louisiana. This sport gave me a chance when so many people don't get a chance. And I love this sport.'
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My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
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I live - I live a highly scheduled life. There's absolutely no time wasted. I'm very focused. And I have a great assistant.
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Inspiration is God making contact with itself.
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Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
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I think I'll be single my whole life. It's entirely possible I'm going to end up alone. Because I don't want to make any sacrifices for my own development and achieving what I want to achieve, and I don't want a family to get in the way of that.
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I'm a creative person, so I have to stay busy.
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Lovers should also have their days off.
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I am not a director or a writer, but a filmmaker.
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I'm missing work. We didn't have enough money for preschool. I had a panic attack. I couldn't do it. I became one of those horrible foster parents who give the kids back.
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Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Academy Award.
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Only Congress has the authority to adequately and holistically address our broken immigration system.
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My idea for 'BoneMan's Daughters' came from the loss of my own daughter when she left home to live with a monster at age 18. I wanted to throttle the man, but she was in love, so all I could do was hope, pray and cry.
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I think Barack Obama has brought a new level of ethical standards to Washington. Has he changed some basic hard-knuckle politics? No. You need hard-knuckle politics to succeed.
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The most wonderful thing I hear is people coming up and saying 'Thank you for my childhood', which still blows my mind but is very sweet.
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If I had a bad performance in a particular leotard, I threw it in the trash.
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I love the idea of bringing my work to the general public, not just people who go to gallery openings.
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-Is it permitted to differ with Kierkegaard? -Not only permitted but necessary. If you love him.
