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title: "2 Rebecca Quotes By Donald Barthelme"
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> [“Do I want to be loved in spite of?Do you? Does anyone? But aren't we all to some degree? Aren't there important parts of all of us which must be, so to say, gazed past? I turn a blind eye…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-barthelme/do-i-want-to-be-loved-in-spite-of-do-you-does-anyone-but-aren-t-we/)

[Donald Barthelme](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-barthelme/)

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> [“The snow is coming," she said. "Soon it will be snow time. Together then as in other snow times. Drinking busthead 'round the fire. Truth is a locked room that we knock the lock off from time to time, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-barthelme/the-snow-is-coming-she-said-soon-it-will-be-snow-time-together-then/)

[Donald Barthelme](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-barthelme/)

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## Other authors on Rebecca

## More by Donald Barthelme

> [And I sat there getting drunker and drunker and more in love and more in love...And you can never touch a girl in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-barthelme/and-i-sat-there-getting-drunker-and-drunker-and-more-in-love-and-more/)

[Donald Barthelme](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-barthelme/)

> [“The story ends. It was written for several reasons. Nine of them are secrets. The tenth is that one should never cease considering human…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-barthelme/the-story-ends-it-was-written-for-several-reasons-nine-of-them-are/)

[Donald Barthelme](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-barthelme/)

> [“INTERVIEWER Why don’t you write tragedy? BARTHELME I’m fated to deal in mixtures, slumgullions, which preclude tragedy, which require a pure line. It’s a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-barthelme/interviewer-why-don-t-you-write-tragedy-barthelme-i-m-fated-to-deal/)

[Donald Barthelme](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-barthelme/)

> [“Do I want to be loved in spite of?Do you? Does anyone? But aren't we all to some degree? Aren't there important parts of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-barthelme/do-i-want-to-be-loved-in-spite-of-do-you-does-anyone-but-aren-t-we/)

[Donald Barthelme](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-barthelme/)

> [“Our becoming is done.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-barthelme/our-becoming-is-done/)

[Donald Barthelme](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-barthelme/)

> [“Of course we had hoped that he would take up his sword as part of the President's war on poetry. The time is ripe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-barthelme/of-course-we-had-hoped-that-he-would-take-up-his-sword-as-part-of-the/)

[Donald Barthelme](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-barthelme/)

> [Capitalism places every man in competition with his fellows for a share of the available wealth. A few people accumulate big piles, but most…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-barthelme/capitalism-places-every-man-in-competition-with-his-fellows-for-a/)

[Donald Barthelme](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-barthelme/)

> [“You came and fell upon me, I was sitting in the wicker chair. The wicker exclaimed as your weight fell upon me. You were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-barthelme/you-came-and-fell-upon-me-i-was-sitting-in-the-wicker-chair-the/)

[Donald Barthelme](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-barthelme/)

> [“Mother, have you noticed that this society we’re in tends to be a little…repressive?” “What does that mean, Eugenie? What does that mean, that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-barthelme/mother-have-you-noticed-that-this-society-we-re-in-tends-to-be-a/)

[Donald Barthelme](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-barthelme/)

> [I keep wondering if, say, there is intelligent life on other planets, the scientists argue that something like two percent of the other planets…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-barthelme/i-keep-wondering-if-say-there-is-intelligent-life-on-other-planets/)

[Donald Barthelme](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-barthelme/)

> [“This muck heaves and palpitates. It is multi-directional and has a mayor.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-barthelme/this-muck-heaves-and-palpitates-it-is-multi-directional-and-has-a/)

[Donald Barthelme](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-barthelme/)

> [“They were heading I judged for the Sixth Precinct. Had I had the black hat with me, and sufficient men and horses and lariats…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-barthelme/they-were-heading-i-judged-for-the-sixth-precinct-had-i-had-the-black/)

[Donald Barthelme](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-barthelme/)

> [“art is a meditation upon external reality rather than a representation of external reality”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-barthelme/art-is-a-meditation-upon-external-reality-rather-than-a/)

[Donald Barthelme](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-barthelme/)

> [“the hinder portion scalding-house good eating Curve B in addition to the usual baths and ablutions military police sumptuousness of the washhouse risking misstatements…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-barthelme/the-hinder-portion-scalding-house-good-eating-curve-b-in-addition-to/)

[Donald Barthelme](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-barthelme/)

> [Any genuine work of art generates new work.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-barthelme/any-genuine-work-of-art-generates-new-work/)

[Donald Barthelme](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-barthelme/)

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