"There was no particular point at which I……" — Donald Barthelme

"There was no particular point at which I stopped being promising."

— Donald Barthelme

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40 Quotes by Donald Barthelme

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Food ... is the topmost taper on the golden candelabrum of existence.
The writer is one who, emnbarking upon a task, does not know what to do.
Anathematization of the world is not an adequate response to the world.
I don’t think you can talk about progress in art—movement, but not progress.
The best way to live is by not knowing what will happen to you at the end of the day...
The important thing is the educational experience itself — how to survive it.
I think writers like old cities and are made very nervous by new cities.
Is death that which gives meaning to life? And I said, no, life is that which gives meaning to life.
Endings are elusive, middles are nowhere to be found, but worst of all is to begin, to begin, to begin.
My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied architecture. She was a great…
Is death that which gives meaning to life?
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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