"The much heaves and palpitates. It is multidirectional……" — Donald Barthelme
"The much heaves and palpitates. It is multidirectional and has a mayor."
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Donald Barthelme
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40 Quotes by Donald Barthelme
Donald Barthelme has 40 quotes on this site.
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Food ... is the topmost taper on the golden candelabrum of existence.
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The writer is one who, emnbarking upon a task, does not know what to do.
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Anathematization of the world is not an adequate response to the world.
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I don’t think you can talk about progress in art—movement, but not progress.
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The best way to live is by not knowing what will happen to you at the end of the day...
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The important thing is the educational experience itself — how to survive it.
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I think writers like old cities and are made very nervous by new cities.
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Is death that which gives meaning to life? And I said, no, life is that which gives meaning to life.
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Endings are elusive, middles are nowhere to be found, but worst of all is to begin, to begin, to begin.
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My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied architecture. She was a great…
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Is death that which gives meaning to life?
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The not-knowing is crucial to art, is what permits art to be made. Without the scanning process engendered by not-knowing,…
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More Heaves Quotes
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one of 11 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.
— Robert Browning
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Like mighty eagle soaring light. O'er antelopes on Alpine height. The anchor heaves, the ship swings free, The sails swell…
— Thomas Lovell Beddoes
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A little noiseless noise among the leaves, Born of the very sigh that silence heaves.
— John Keats
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Thus when a barber and a collier fight, The barber beats the luckless collier-white; The dusty collier heaves his ponderous…
— Christopher Smart
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On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble;His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves;The wind it plies the saplings double, And thick…
— A. E. Housman
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Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce…
— Alexander Pope
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We got off at the next exit, quietly, and, switching drivers, we walked in front of the car. We met…
— John Green
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You turned your head to look at me. Your eyes looked so big in your face, so mysterious — wide…
— Francesca Lia Block
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The end is near," Moridin said. "The Wheel has groaned its final rotation, the clock has lost its spring, the…
— Robert Jordan
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Popeye, forced as you know to flee the country One musty gusty evening, by the schemes of his wizened, duplicate…
— John Ashbery
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