Distracted Quote by Donald Barthelme Download Open image “The self cannot be escaped, but it can be, with ingenuity and hard work, distracted.” — Donald Barthelme ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Distracted Hard Hard work Identity Ingenuity Self
Sometimes it is painful to be oneself; at other times it seems impossible to escape oneself. — James Franco Copy Share Image
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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… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
“The story ends. It was written for several reasons. Nine of them are secrets. The tenth is that one should never cease considering human… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
“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… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
“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… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
“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… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
Capitalism places every man in competition with his fellows for a share of the available wealth. A few people accumulate big piles, but most… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
“You came and fell upon me, I was sitting in the wicker chair. The wicker exclaimed as your weight fell upon me. You were… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
“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… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
I keep wondering if, say, there is intelligent life on other planets, the scientists argue that something like two percent of the other planets… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
“This muck heaves and palpitates. It is multi-directional and has a mayor.” — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
“They were heading I judged for the Sixth Precinct. Had I had the black hat with me, and sufficient men and horses and lariats… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
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One should not be too distracted by definitions. Ideas transcend definitions. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
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We are distracted from our greatness because are greatness is what scares us. Right where you are…God is. — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
One of the things we've seen here is how easy it is for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to get distracted from dealing with… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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It seemed intended by the blessed providence of God that I should be blind all my life, and I thank him for the dispensation.… — Fanny Crosby Copy Share Image
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