Donald Barthelme Quotes
The center will not hold if it has been spot-welded by an operator whose deepest concern is not with the weld but with his lottery ticket.
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If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.
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When you're 21, you think, 'Oh God, when I'm 36, oh God, that's nearly 40 and I'll look really old and wrinkly by then.' And actually, I quite like the way I look.
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As long as there is a mathematical chance, we have to keep on going.
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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
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I feel like people are funny, and women are people, so I'm sick of the distinction.
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It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures that helped to inspire me.
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Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
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Hospitals are about healing.
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You cannot put 50 years of the Marvel universe into a movie. It's impossible.
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Foreigners can only fight with success in the summer. We can fight during any of the four seasons, so we have the weather on our side.
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I would love to have the honor to get to work with Meryl Streep. I love her and I love her work.
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'The Handmaid's Tale' is a human story, and women's rights are human rights, and it's all about equality, but at the end of the day, it's not equal.
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I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.
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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don't be old. Don't be stale.
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No use to fall down on my knees and beg for mercy's sake. Nothing I counted mine, out of my life, is mine to take...
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Jennifer was great. She is fantastic. Really easy to work with, no drama, really down-to-earth, such a funny girl. Nothing but good things to say about her. She really was great to work with. And it always makes it easier when you’re working with people that you like and you enjoy being around.
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I learned five chords; I thought I knew it all.
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Everything is possible, from angels to demons to economists and politicians.
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I identify with the regular person, because that is who I am.
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No one understands the shift in priorities about having a child in your life... until you have a child in your life.
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I wish the state of enthusiasm I am now in may last, for today I FELT there is a God. I have been devotional and my mind has been led away from the follies that it is mostly wrapped up in.
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My cross earrings are a mini statement; I wear them every day! My whole dream is to be iconic, and the way you dress yourself is so important.
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The election of Shinzo Abe as the leader of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic party and now prime minister will have profound repercussions for Japan and East Asia. Most western commentary during the premiership of Junichiro Koizumi has been concerned with the extent to which Japan has allowed a freer rein to market forces.
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The center will not hold if it has been spot-welded by an operator whose deepest concern is not with the weld but with his lottery ticket.
