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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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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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 if anybody had the opportunity to stay in one place and play ball, they would.
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The point of life is to transcend the smallness of the finite self by identifying with things that last.
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What is worrisome about that is the U.S. standard of living. I think it is very difficult to envision our standard of living being preserved if we are in an economy where all people do is flip hamburgers, wait on people in stores, and sue each other. It’s not much of a basis for an economy.
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The beauty of having short hair is that I actually can wash and style it at home!
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I realized that the European dogma is not necessarily the only way to look at things.
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History is no easy science; its subject, human society, is inifinitely complex.
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I have absolutely no fear of death. From my near-death research and my personal experiences, death is, in my judgment, simply a transition into another kind of reality.
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-Is it permitted to differ with Kierkegaard? -Not only permitted but necessary. If you love him.
