Donald Barthelme Quotes

• 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.

  Donald Barthelme

  Writing, Knowing, Doe

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• El objetivo de la literatura ... es la creación de un extraño objeto cubierto de pieles que te rompe el corazón.

  Donald Barthelme

  Heart, Fur, Literature

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

  Donald Barthelme

  Writing, Found, Worst

  1972 Sadness,'The Rise of Capitalism'.

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• Art is not difficult because it wishes to be difficult, but because it wishes to be art.

  Donald Barthelme

  Art, Wish, Difficult

  "A brief survey of the short story part 16: Donald Barthelme" by Chris Power, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2009.

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• I am never needlessly obscure - I am needfully obscure, when I am obscure.

  Donald Barthelme

  Oscuro

  Quoted by Tracy Daugherty in an interview in "Splice Today", September 02, 2009.

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• One of the pleasures of art is that it enables the mind to move in unanticipated directions, to make connections that may be in some sense errors but are fruitful nonetheless.

  Donald Barthelme

  Art, Moving, Errors

  "Not-Knowing: The Essays and Interviews of Donald Barthelme". Book by Donald Barthelme. Chapter: "Reifications", p. 188, 1997.

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

  Donald Barthelme

  Particular

  Donald Barthelme (1982). “Sixty stories”, Plume

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• The best way to live is by not knowing what will happen to you at the end of the day.

  Donald Barthelme

  Knowing, The End Of The Day, Way

  Donald Barthelme (1992). “The teachings of Don B.: satires, parodies, fables, illustrated stories, and plays of Donald Barthelme”

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• Write about what you're afraid of.

  Donald Barthelme

  Escribir

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• 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.

  Donald Barthelme

  Messages, Has Beens

  Donald Barthelme (1992). “The teachings of Don B.: satires, parodies, fables, illustrated stories, and plays of Donald Barthelme”

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• The task is not so much to solve problems as to propose questions.

  Donald Barthelme

  Tasks, Problem, Solve

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

  Donald Barthelme

  Hard Work, Self, Ingenuity

  1972 Sadness,'Daumier'.

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• Any genuine work of art generates new work.

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  Art, New Work, Genuine

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• 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.

  Donald Barthelme

  Believe, Wife, Charm

  Donald Barthelme (1981). “Sixty stories”, Putnam Adult

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• I don't believe that we are what we do although many thinkers argue otherwise. I believe that what we do is, very often, a poor approximation of what we are -- an imperfect manifestation of a much better totality. Even the best of us sometimes bite off, as it were, less than we can chew.

  Donald Barthelme

  Believe, Arguing, Action

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• How can you be alienated without first having been connected?

  Donald Barthelme

  Firsts, Connected

  Donald Barthelme (1982). “Sixty stories”, Plume

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• El capitalismo se levantó y se quitó el pijama. Otro día, otro dólar. Cada hombre se valora por lo que aporta en el mercado. El sentido ha sido drenado del trabajo y asignado en su lugar a la remuneración.

  Donald Barthelme

  Work, Men, Dollars

  Donald Barthelme (1982). “Sixty stories”, Plume

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• 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

  Men, Goal, Despair

  Donald Barthelme (2008). “Flying to America: 45 More Stories”, p.144, Counterpoint Press

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• And I sat there getting drunker and drunker and more in love and more in love.

  Donald Barthelme

  Sáb

  Donald Barthelme (1982). “Sixty stories”, Plume

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• Is death that which gives meaning to life? And I said, no, life is that which gives meaning to life.

  Donald Barthelme

  Giving, Life Is, Said

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

  Donald Barthelme

  Angel, Strange, Position

  Donald Barthelme (1981). “Sixty stories”, Putnam Adult

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• Anathematization of the world is not an adequate response to the world.

  Donald Barthelme

  World, Adequate, Response

  Donald Barthelme (2013). “Snow White”, p.184, Simon and Schuster

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

  Donald Barthelme

  Wine, Class, Whiskey

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• Lo que hace un artista es fracasar. Cualquier lectura de la literatura, (me refiero a la literatura de la creación artística), por sumaria que sea, te persuadirá al instante de que la experiencia artística paradigmática es la del fracaso. La realización no alcanza, iguala, la intuición. Hay algo "ahí fuera" que no se puede traer "aquí". Esto es lo normal. No me refiero a los malos artistas, sino a los buenos. No existe tal cosa como un "artista de éxito" (excepto, por supuesto, en términos mundanos).

  Donald Barthelme

  Arte, Lectura, Media

  "The Sandman". "Sadness". Book by Donald Barthelme, 1972.

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• Self-criticism sessions were held, but these produced more criticism than could usefully be absorbed or accomodated.

  Donald Barthelme

  Self, Criticism, Session

  Donald Barthelme (1982). “Sixty stories”, Plume

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