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Donald Barthelme Quotes: Maybe writing can't be taught, but editing can be taught—prayer, fasting and self-mutilation.
         

Maybe writing can't be taught, but editing can be taught—prayer, fasting and self-mutilation.


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I don't think you can talk about progress in art - movement, but not progress. You can speak of a point on a line for the purpose of locating things, but it's a horizontal line, not a vertical one.

I don't think you can talk about progress in art - movement, but not progress. You can speak of a point on a line for the purpose of locating things, but it's a horizontal line, not a vertical one.



The writer is one who, embarking upon a task, does not know what to do... Writing is a process of dealing with not-knowing, a forcing of what and how.

The writer is one who, embarking upon a task, does not know what to do... Writing is a process of dealing with not-knowing, a forcing of what and how.



The aim of literature ... is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.

The aim of literature ... is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.



Endings are elusive, middles are nowhere to be found, but worst of all is to begin, to begin, to begin.

Endings are elusive, middles are nowhere to be found, but worst of all is to begin, to begin, to begin.



Any genuine work of art generates new work.

Any genuine work of art generates new work.



I believe that because I had obtained a wife who was made up of wife-signs (beauty, charm, softness, perfume, cookery) I had found love.

I believe that because I had obtained a wife who was made up of wife-signs (beauty, charm, softness, perfume, cookery) I had found love.



Yes, success is everything. Failure is more common. Most achieve a sort of middling thing, but fortunately one's situation is always blurred, you never know absolutely quite where you are.

Yes, success is everything. Failure is more common. Most achieve a sort of middling thing, but fortunately one's situation is always blurred, you never know absolutely quite where you are.



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

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



We are what we have been told about ourselves. We are the sum of the messages we have received. The true messages. The false messages.

We are what we have been told about ourselves. We are the sum of the messages we have received. The true messages. The false messages.



The privileged classes can afford psychoanalysis and whiskey. Whereas all we get is sermons and sour wine. This is manifestly unfair. I protest, silently.

The privileged classes can afford psychoanalysis and whiskey. Whereas all we get is sermons and sour wine. This is manifestly unfair. I protest, silently.





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Neither. I am just one who has woken up while the rest of you are still sleeping.



Thus, the struggle for peace includes the struggle for freedom and justice for the masses of all countries.

Thus, the struggle for peace includes the struggle for freedom and justice for the masses of all countries.



Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.



So easy to take it for granted, but this is something no normal human was made to see. The world of magic has blessed me with wonders and it's only right to stop every now and then to appreciate it.

So easy to take it for granted, but this is something no normal human was made to see. The world of magic has blessed me with wonders and it's only right to stop every now and then to appreciate it.



I prefer more of the modern stuff - just because I can associate with the imagery more.

I prefer more of the modern stuff - just because I can associate with the imagery more.



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Tomorrow is an assumption; it is just a theory! We must wait for tomorrow to see whether tomorrow is real or not!

Tomorrow is an assumption; it is just a theory! We must wait for tomorrow to see whether tomorrow is real or not!



You can't have 'yes' people around you.

You can't have 'yes' people around you.



I take what people feel and think, especially when it's different from, very seriously, and I find it liberating.

I take what people feel and think, especially when it's different from, very seriously, and I find it liberating.




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