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 might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.
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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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Whenever I start a 'Potter' film, I get these dreams. The last dream I had, I was in a war and the sky was blotted with broomsticks and I couldn't find my wand. It was so intense. I always have mental, intense, war wizard dreams when I'm doing the films.
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Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.
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You’ve been here before. It won’t kill you. It feels like you can’t breathe, but you actually are breathing. It feels like you’ll never stop crying, but you actually will.
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I sincerely believe that if Bush and Cheney recognized the full humanity of other people's mothers around the world, they wouldn't commit the crimes they commit.
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If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.
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I want to be able to make sure that we have enough capital to survive at least three consecutive failures. If you want to make a small fortune in the launch vehicle business, start with a large one.
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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.'
