Donald Barthelme Quotes
I am never needlessly obscure-I am needfully obscure, when I am obscure.
Donald Barthelme
Quotes to Explore
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For me to have the opportunity to stay with one character for, God willing, a long period of time, is really exciting.
Laura Linney
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A revolutionary idea is usually one with its sleeves rolled up.
Navjot Singh Sidhu
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For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.
Ferdinand Mount
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Love is a great emotion, but I believe it's not just about romance; it could be love for nature, people, for relationships.
Rani Mukerji
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An outsider's point of view is always handy.
Pat Oliphant
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You know, the Bible is so clear. Go to Genesis chapter nine and you will find the death penalty clearly stated in Genesis chapter nine... God ordains the death penalty!
Rafael Cruz
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I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential question. Perhaps we are and perhaps there's a kind of daring, a kind of necessary energetic questioning. Because often I say it's not what we know, it's what we can risk discovering.
Yusef Komunyakaa
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Many women have more power than they recognize, and they're very hesitant to use it, for they fear they won't be loved.
Patricia Schroeder
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The Italians have their priorities right: They're driven, they do their work, but they really enjoy the day-to-day and they don't put off the enjoyment of the everyday for some future goal.
Frances Mayes
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Everybody's fast and strong, but to go out there and throw pass-rush moves or be able to do something different on the run to get them off balance. Anybody can run into somebody, but if you can shake them a little bit at the line, that's what's helped me out as a player.
Malik Jackson
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I don't think that I would always be asked about my feelings about liberal bias in the media if there wasn't any liberal bias in the media. If it was a moot question, then we wouldn't always have the discussion.
Dana Perino
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Women put guys through tests all the time.
J. B. Smoove
