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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There have been a lot of challenges, but I'm still standing on my own, and it's quite an achievement knowing that I own my own business and created my own success through hard work and vision.
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Everything Ticketmaster stands for is what we're fighting against. They're just a small cog in a machine where the artist is at the bottom.
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So, if you're doing good longform with talented people than you can step out and you can be the president or a construction worker and people accept that. It's really the roles you give yourself.
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My heart is turned to stone; I strike it, and it hurts my hand.
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-Is it permitted to differ with Kierkegaard? -Not only permitted but necessary. If you love him.
