"The self cannot be escaped, but it can……" — Donald Barthelme
"The self cannot be escaped, but it can be, with ingenuity and hard work, distracted."
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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 Distracted Quotes
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I'm a person of whim, and easily distracted. I don't like multitasking. When I'm doing one thing, I like to…
— Margaret Atwood
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I think there are times when you walk onto a set you can potentially be either intimidated or distracted by…
— Eric Bana
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
— Noam Chomsky
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Generally we waste our lives, distracted from our true selves, in endless activity. Meditation is the way to bring us…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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Because the demands on the goalie are mostly mental, it means that for a goalie the biggest enemy is himself.…
— Ken Dryden
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There's no greater sign of the failure of the American educational system than the extent to which Americans are distracted…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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When you are passionate, you always have your destination in sight and you are not distracted by obstacles. Because you…
— Mike Krzyzewski
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I think what has happened to our basketball team, we've been badly distracted. They're not reading too many positive things…
— Bill Russell
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It's just I might get distracted, and I get lost kind of easily, and sometimes I have really bad days...when,…
— Neil Gaiman
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Sometimes you really dig a girl, the moment you kiss her, And then you get distracted by her older sister.
— John Sebastian
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Be careful to not haul around in our lives so many nice but unnecessary things that we are distracted and…
— David A. Bednar
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Ours is supposed to be a government in which classes and distinctions melt into a harmonious whole. Until we reach…
— Timothy Thomas Fortune
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