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Donald Barthelme Quote: “It is difficult to keep the public interested. The public demands new wonders piled on new wonders. Often we don’t know where our next marvel is coming from. The supply of strange ideas is not endless.”

51. “It is difficult to keep the public interested. The public demands new wonders piled on new wonders. Often we don’t know where our next marvel is coming from. The supply of strange ideas is not endless.”

— Donald Barthelme

Donald Barthelme Quote: “You may not be interested in absurdity,” she said firmly, “but absurdity is interested in you.”

52. “You may not be interested in absurdity,” she said firmly, “but absurdity is interested in you.”

— Donald Barthelme

Donald Barthelme Quote: “There was no particular point at which I stopped being promising.”

53. “There was no particular point at which I stopped being promising.”

— Donald Barthelme

Donald Barthelme Quote: “Fathers are teachers of the true and not-true, and no father ever knowingly teaches what is not true. In a cloud of unknowing, then, the father proceeds with his instruction.”

54. “Fathers are teachers of the true and not-true, and no father ever knowingly teaches what is not true. In a cloud of unknowing, then, the father proceeds with his instruction.”

— Donald Barthelme

Donald Barthelme Quote: “MTV has severely compromised surrealism, perhaps ruined it forever.”

55. “MTV has severely compromised surrealism, perhaps ruined it forever.”

— Donald Barthelme

Donald Barthelme Quote: “Can the life of the time be caught in an advertisement? Is that how it is, really, in the meadows of the world?”

56. “Can the life of the time be caught in an advertisement? Is that how it is, really, in the meadows of the world?”

— Donald Barthelme

Donald Barthelme Quote: “Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. Theyve been a laboratory for everybody.”

57. “Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. Theyve been a laboratory for everybody.”

— Donald Barthelme

Donald Barthelme Quote: “Goals incapable of attainment have driven many a man to despair, but despair is easier to get to than that – one need merely look out of the window, for example.”

58. “Goals incapable of attainment have driven many a man to despair, but despair is easier to get to than that – one need merely look out of the window, for example.”

— Donald Barthelme

Donald Barthelme Quote: “I have to admit we are mired in the most exquisite mysterious muck. This muck heaves and palpitates. It is multi-directional and has a mayor.”

59. “I have to admit we are mired in the most exquisite mysterious muck. This muck heaves and palpitates. It is multi-directional and has a mayor.”

— Donald Barthelme

Donald Barthelme Quote: “There is no moment that exceeds in beauty that moment when one looks at a woman and finds that she is looking at you in the same way that you are looking at her. The moment in which she bestows that look that says, “Proceed with your evil plan, sumbitch.”

60. “There is no moment that exceeds in beauty that moment when one looks at a woman and finds that she is looking at you in the same way that you are looking at her. The moment in which she bestows that look that says, “Proceed with your evil plan, sumbitch.”

— Donald Barthelme

Donald Barthelme Quote: “The snow is coming,” she said. “Soon it will be snow time. Together then as in other snow times. Drinking busthead ’round the fire. Truth is a locked room that we knock the lock off from time to time, and then board up again. Tomorrow you will hurt me, and I will inform you that you have done so, and so on and so on. To hell with it. Come, viridian friend, come and sup with me.”

61. “The snow is coming,” she said. “Soon it will be snow time. Together then as in other snow times. Drinking busthead ’round the fire. Truth is a locked room that we knock the lock off from time to time, and then board up again. Tomorrow you will hurt me, and I will inform you that you have done so, and so on and so on. To hell with it. Come, viridian friend, come and sup with me.”

— Donald Barthelme

Donald Barthelme Quote: “Who among us is not thinking about divorce, except for a few tiny-minded stick-in-the-muds who don’t count?”

62. “Who among us is not thinking about divorce, except for a few tiny-minded stick-in-the-muds who don’t count?”

— Donald Barthelme

Donald Barthelme Quote: “The trouble with capturing one is that that original gesture is almost impossible to equal or improve upon.”

63. “The trouble with capturing one is that that original gesture is almost impossible to equal or improve upon.”

— Donald Barthelme

Donald Barthelme Quote: “Let me point out, if it has escaped your notice, that what an artist does, is fail.”

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

— Donald Barthelme

Donald Barthelme Quote: “Is it permitted to differ with Kierkegaard? Not only permitted but necessary. If you love him.”

65. “Is it permitted to differ with Kierkegaard? Not only permitted but necessary. If you love him.”

— Donald Barthelme

Donald Barthelme Quote: “It seemed to proclaim itself a mystery, but one there was no point in solving – an ongoing low-grade mystery.”

66. “It seemed to proclaim itself a mystery, but one there was no point in solving – an ongoing low-grade mystery.”

— Donald Barthelme

Donald Barthelme Quote: “Strings of language extend in every direction to bind the world into a rushing, ribald whole.”

67. “Strings of language extend in every direction to bind the world into a rushing, ribald whole.”

— Donald Barthelme

Donald Barthelme Quote: “The mind carries you with it, away from what you are supposed to do, toward things that cannot be explained rationally, toward difficulty, lack of clarity, late-afternoon light.”

68. “The mind carries you with it, away from what you are supposed to do, toward things that cannot be explained rationally, toward difficulty, lack of clarity, late-afternoon light.”

— Donald Barthelme

Donald Barthelme Quote: “How can he be killed most easily? With the fewest stains?”

69. “How can he be killed most easily? With the fewest stains?”

— Donald Barthelme

Donald Barthelme Quote: “Truth, as Bergson knew, is a hard apple, whether one is throwing it or catching it.”

70. “Truth, as Bergson knew, is a hard apple, whether one is throwing it or catching it.”

— Donald Barthelme

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