I spoke to Sylvia. "Do you think this is a good life?

Donald Barthelme


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

Donald Barthelme


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You came and fell upon me, I was sitting in the wicker chair. The wicker exclaimed as your weight fell upon me. You were light, I thought, and I thought how good it was of you to do this. We'd never touched before.

Donald Barthelme


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Write about what you're afraid of.

Donald Barthelme


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--Why are we fighting them?
--They're mad. We're sane.
--How do we know?
--That we're sane?
--Yes.
--Am I sane?
--To all appearances.
--And you, do you consider yourself sane?
--I do.
--Well, there you have it.
--But don't they also consider themselves sane?
--I think they know. Deep down. That they're not sane.
--How must that make them feel?
--Terrible, I should think. They must fight ever more fiercely, in order to deny what they know to be true. That they are not sane.

Donald Barthelme

Mots clés war



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The confusing signals, the impurity of the signal, gives you verisimilitude, as when you attend a funeral and notice that it's being poorly done.

Donald Barthelme


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We regarded each other sitting around the breakfast table with its big cardboard boxes of "Fear," "Chix," and "Rats.

Donald Barthelme

Mots clés humor



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

Donald Barthelme

Mots clés religion uncertainty physics modernity



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

Donald Barthelme


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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

Mots clés pessimistic



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