Donald Barthelme Quotes
'How old are you Hogo.' 'Thirty-five Jane. A not unpleasant age to be.' 'You don’t mind then. That you are not young.' 'It has its buggy aspects as what does not?' 'You don’t mind then that you are sagging in the direction of death.' 'No, Jane.'
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Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.
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I identified with white culture, and I wanted to fit in. I didn't identify with black culture. Like, I didn't like Tyler Perry movies, and I wasn't into hip-hop music. I liked Neil Young.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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Everybody has their struggles.
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I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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The Heisman is the biggest award I've ever won.
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This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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I just like seeing the world, and it doesn't matter where.
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I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.
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I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.
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I decided to write 'True Refuge' during a major dive in my own health. Diagnosed with a genetic disease that affected my mobility, I faced tremendous fear and grief about losing the fitness and physical freedom I loved.
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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My role models have kept on changing.
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Looking back, it puzzles me that my parents decided to stay in Shanghai when they must have known that war was imminent. But the cotton works were my father's responsibility, and duty then counted for something.
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America is a meritocracy.
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Surviving is the only glory in war.
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To the old, the new is usually bad news.
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News writes history from the perspective of politicians. Film writes history from the perspective of the people.
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I know a lovely little flower, a flower for which I pine -I would go gather it, but bars my heavy hours confine;Oh, grief, when free, how easily that little flower was mine !. . .Oh, were I sinking to the grave I often ask in vain,And welcome Death stood by to loose the wasted captive's chain - Ah, name me the Forget-me-not, I'd wake to life again!
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
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It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to convey to the mind of the merely general reader, an adequate idea of that nervous intensity of interest with which, in my case, the powers of meditation (not to speak technically) busied and buried themselves, in the contemplation of even the most ordinary objects of the universe.
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'How old are you Hogo.' 'Thirty-five Jane. A not unpleasant age to be.' 'You don’t mind then. That you are not young.' 'It has its buggy aspects as what does not?' 'You don’t mind then that you are sagging in the direction of death.' 'No, Jane.'
