Donald Barthelme Quotes

'Sometimes I see signs on walls saying Kill the Rich,' Clem said. 'And sometimes Kill the Rich has been crossed out and Harm the Rich written underneath. A clear gain for civilization I would say. And the one that says Jean-Paul Sartre Is a Fartre. Something going on there, you must admit. Dim flicker of something. ...'

Donald Barthelme

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• I did anything that would get me on the air.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Me
  • Air
  • Get

• Adults are locked into car payments and divorces and work. They haven't got time to think fresh.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Time
  • Work
  • Car

• Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Believe
  • Influence
  • Legends

• When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.

  

  J. P. Morgan
  • You
  • Enough
  • Happen

• I finished the recordings I had started with Eleven. Matt Cameron joined for the rest of those sessions.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
  • Rest
  • Started
  • Eleven

• Sometimes, it's better to stop thinking and trust your instincts. That's what I used to do when I first started making music, but as time goes on, you can sometimes over-intellectualise things.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Time
  • Music
  • Thinking

• I want to keep active, so when they called me to fight Nate Diaz, I agreed because I wanted to stay active. I got a little surprised because he was out so long, but he's a tough opponent.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Long
  • Fight
  • Tough

• Normally I would not recommend a book that tells you how to make money in the stock market. Most of these books are aimed at gullible folk, and they usually make much more money for their authors than they do for the investing public.

  

  Gavyn Davies
  • Money
  • Book
  • Stock

• When I told my parents that I was starting my transition, my Dad said, 'Well that makes so much more sense 'cause I never saw you any other way and now it totally works.'

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Parents
  • Way
  • Dad

• For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
  • Life
  • Up
  • House

• After I won the Tony Award, the film floodgates opened, so I was like a kid in a candy store.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • Kid
  • Candy
  • Award

• I don't calculate my net worth.

  

  T. S. Kalyanaraman
  • Worth
  • Calculate
  • Net Worth

• I think the best post-breakup album is The Strokes' first album. It's just fun.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • Fun
  • Best
  • First

• My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Important
  • Science
  • Revolution

• Trust is a confusing thing. It seems so simple, but when you try to pin it down, it can be so elusive.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Simple
  • Trust
  • Try

• He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.

  

  Tacitus
  • May
  • Day
  • Fight

• I'm a great believer in fate. I think things happen in spite of, and despite, yourself.

  

  Randolph Scott
  • Great
  • Yourself
  • Fate

• My mom's Brazilian, so she and I definitely grew up with different perspectives. I was born in America, and she's from Brazil, so we have different ways of doing things. There's a bit of culture clash there.

  

  Maiara Walsh
  • Up
  • Different
  • She

• I've never yet met a man who could look after me. I don't need a husband. What I need is a wife.

  

  Joan Collins
  • Wife
  • Husband

• When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt.

  

  John le Carre
  • Age
  • Pretty

• Go back. Go back in time. Everyone's life is a chain of memories. In each chain there are shining links, happenings where this element of wonder...was very strong. Why don't you reach out and relive some of those memories? If you work at it, remembering the wonder can revive your ability to live life as it should be lived.

  

  Arthur Gordon Webster
  • Wonder
  • Memories
  • Live Life

• I think there is this very nice, if at times dangerous, untethered optimism that exists in Silicon Valley.

  

  John Collison
  • Nice

• Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way,Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold,First pledge of blithesome May,Which children pluck, and, full of pride uphold.

  

  James Russell Lowell
  • Children
  • May
  • Road

• 'Sometimes I see signs on walls saying Kill the Rich,' Clem said. 'And sometimes Kill the Rich has been crossed out and Harm the Rich written underneath. A clear gain for civilization I would say. And the one that says Jean-Paul Sartre Is a Fartre. Something going on there, you must admit. Dim flicker of something. ...'

  

  Donald Barthelme