Donald Barthelme Quotes
Donald Barthelme Quotes
See the moon? It hates us.
4961 The death of God left the angels in a strange position.
2676 The world in the evening seems fraught with the absence of promise, if you are a married man. There is nothing to do but go home and drink your nine drinks and forget about it.
3854 Now, here is the point about the self: it is insatiable. It is always, always hankering. It is what you might call rapacious to a fault. The great flaming mouth to the thing is never in this world going to be stuff full.
3468 There was a certain amount of initial argumentation about the "meaning" of the balloon; this subsided, because we have learned not to insist on meanings, and they are rarely even looked for now, except in cases involving the simplest, safest phenomena.
1455 The aim of literature ... is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.
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