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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And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.
Ed Miliband
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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.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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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.
Kate Winslet
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As long as there is a mathematical chance, we have to keep on going.
Ottmar Hitzfeld
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Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
Madeleine M. Kunin
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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
Victor Hugo
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I feel like people are funny, and women are people, so I'm sick of the distinction.
Kate Flannery
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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.
Fay Godwin
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Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
Edmund Spenser
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Hospitals are about healing.
Irwin Redlener
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You cannot put 50 years of the Marvel universe into a movie. It's impossible.
Edgar Wright
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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.
Zhang Zhidong
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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.
Bailee Madison
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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.
Yvonne Strahovski
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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.
Joanne Rowling
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Sometimes audiences want to see what we're doing to their world. It's our obligation sometimes to reflect it.
Taylor Sheridan
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Notice that much of what men do is also done by single mothers so appreciating what men do also helps us appreciate what single moms do.
Warren Farrell
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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.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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…a man who sold meat but knew nothing of the poetry of the slaughterhouse…. Ted Arden was no ice-cream butcher.
Anthony Burgess
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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...
Anna Akhmatova
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Obama is a great man who's just beginning to understand the realities. And I'm not just saying that because he reads my books. I would have voted for him anyway.
E. L. Doctorow
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I can't imagine I'll be the new George Clooney. That's not really on the cards.
Peter Capaldi
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Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
Confucius
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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.
Donald Barthelme