Donald Barthelme Quotes
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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I am proud to be a member of the Congress of the United States.
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The very phrase 'Make America great again' implies some kind of reset to a time long since passed. A mission to restore America to a previous default setting where American economic superiority was without peer, factories and manufacturing plants were humming, and jobs were plentiful for anyone who wanted one.
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I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It's more fun to come to Paris.
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It is hard work to give life to new characters every single day. It is not as if I am God. I am just a tired, middle-aged woman trying to keep going.
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I love finding new creative partnerships but then continuing the partnerships I'm already in.
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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.
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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.
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An outsider's point of view is always handy.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Women put guys through tests all the time.
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I would have voted 'no' on the Iraq war and 'yes' to Afghanistan.
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Selam is our most complete skeleton of a three-year-old girl who lived and died 3.3 million years ago. She belongs to the species known as Australopithecus afarensis.
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Hair loss is God's way of telling me I'm human.
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The difference between Superman and Wonder Woman is not strength or power level or origin but the fact that she is a woman.
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I love that moment when I look back at a challenge in my life and realize I'm now at peace with it.
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I'm convinced that quite a lot of young people, when they get in trouble with the law, it's a cry for help there. Because it's not that they go out to offend. It's that their behaviour is self-parading, it's the big 'I'. And sometimes that means they're really lacking in confidence.
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I am never needlessly obscure-I am needfully obscure, when I am obscure.
