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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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.
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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've got some issues that nobody can see and all of these emotions are pouring out of me I bring them to the light for you it's only right'
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It's not like during your normal day, anyone says, 'How do having meaning in your life? How do you make meaning in your life?'
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You think you've made something really great, but there's a reason why it's not resonating the way some previous work did. But it's not that easy to just replicate. Some people think, "Oh, just go do that thing you used to do before." But it just doesn't work like that. It's a lot more mysterious or slippery.
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As a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didn't move me.
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Kid - the next time I say, 'Let's go someplace like Bolivia,' let's go someplace like Bolivia.
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The world still consists of two clearly divided groups: the English and the foreigners. One group consists of less than 50 million people; the other of 3,950 million. The latter group does not really count.
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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.
