Donald Barthelme Quotes
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When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues.
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My cares come from a very selfish place 'cause in reality I'm young, and I haven't had the experience to be mature yet.
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Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
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As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'
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Parts of the world can be very hostile to differences, social or artistic.
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Every time I touch the ball, I think I'm going to go all the way. I think I'm going to score a touchdown. I'm the runner I am because I think that I'm going to go all the way every single time I touch the ball.
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Religious faith, like political belief, should be based on reasoning, on the development of thought and feelings. The two things are inseparable.
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Gran Metalik was a student in CMLL when I was there as a teenager, and I was in main events and big time matches, so I used to see him in the gym all the time.
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The Teenage Cancer Trust does incredible work supporting and caring for teenagers and young adults with cancer, and it's a cause that is really close to me and my family.
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I did the Kannada film when just out of school. I didn't know anything about the South Indian film industry at that time, and I did the film to earn some pocket money. I realised then I like acting.
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I don't do the super-clean-living L.A. thing.
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You are a dear soul who plays polo, and I am a poor Pole who plays solo.
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I love Harley Quinn. I do. I just love it.
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There's nothing anyone can do about Tiger Woods but look at his game and swoon.
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I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.
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Money was the crux. Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than the physical destruction of war itself.
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Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.
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Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness.
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And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!
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I started writing seriously when I was a teenager, around 14 years old.
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I'm not sure about this Live 8 thing. Correct me if I am wrong, but are they hoping that one of these guys from the G8 is on a quick 15-minute break at Gleneagles and sees Annie Lennox singing "Sweet Dreams" and thinks: "F... me, she might have a point there, you know." It's not going to f... happen, is it? Keane doing "Somewhere Only We Know" and some Japanese businessman going: "Aw, look at him...we should really f... drop that debt, you know." It's not going to happen, is it?
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Italy is divided between us and them, rich and poor, north and south, young and old, employed and unemployed.
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One day it dawned on her that life was not going to happen some time in the future. She realized that her happiness was right here and now.
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Poignance is all.
