Best Donald Barthelme Quotes
- There was no particular point at which I stopped being promising. Funny
- --Why are we fighting them? --They're mad. We're sane. --How do we know? --That we're sane? --Yes. --Am I sane? --To all appearances. --And you,… All
- Write about what you're afraid of. Afraid
- The death of God left the angels in a strange position. Angel
- Goals incapable of attainment have driven many a man to despair, but despair is easier to get to than that -- one need merely look… Attainment
- The aim of literature ... is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart. Aim
- There is no moment that exceeds in beauty that moment when one looks at a woman and finds that she is looking at you in… Beauty
- Well chaps first I'd like to say a few vile things more or less at random, not only because it is expected of me but… Chaps
- He is mad about being small when you were big, but no, that's not it, he is mad about being helpless when you were powerful,… Big
- I believe that because I had obtained a wife who was made up of wife-signs (beauty, charm, softness, perfume, cookery) I had found love. Beauty
- Succeed! It has been done, and with a stupidity that can astound the most experienced. Astound
- And I sat there getting drunker and drunker and more in love and more in love. Drunker
- See the moon? It hates us. Hate
- How can you be alienated without first having been connected? Alienated
- The privileged classes can afford psychoanalysis and whiskey. Whereas all we get is sermons and sour wine. This is manifestly unfair. I protest, silently. Afford