Donald Barthelme Quotes

• No tale ever happened in the way we tell it. But the moral is always correct.

  Donald Barthelme

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• The world is sagging, snagging, scaling, spalling, pilling, pinging, pitting, warping, checking, fading, chipping, cracking, yellowing, leaking, stalling, shrinking, and in dynamic unbalance.

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• Let me point out, if it has escaped your notice, that what an artist does, is fail.

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• The self cannot be escaped, but it can be, with ingenuity and hard work, distracted.

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• Doubt is a necessary precondition to meaningful action. Fear is the great mover in the end.

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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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• ‘Some people’, Miss R. said, ‘run to conceits or wisdom but I hold to the hard, brown, nutlike word. I might point out that there is enough aesthetic excitement here to satisfy anyone but a damned fool.’

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• This ‘sense’ is not to be obtained by reading between the lines (for there is nothing there, in those white spaces), but by reading the lines themselves.

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• We like books that have a lot of dreck in them, matter which presents itself as not wholly relevant (or indeed, at all relevant), but which, carefully attended to, can supply a kind of ‘sense’ of what is going on.

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• The death of God left the angels in a strange position.

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Donald Barthelme (10)

Birth:	7th April, 1931
Death:	23rd July, 1989
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Novelist, Professor

About

Donald Barthelme was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was an American author, novelist,  and professor. He also worked as a newspaper reporter for the Houston Post, was managing editor of Location magazine, director of the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston. He is a professor at various universities. He produced four novels characterized by the same fragmentary style: Snow White, The Dead Father, Paradise, and The King.

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