Donald Barthelme Quotes

My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied architecture. She was a great influence in all sorts of ways, a wicked wit.

Donald Barthelme

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 7, 1931 - July 23, 1989

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I love hotels. I generally prefer smaller boutique hotels to large chains, especially when attention and wit has been given to interesting design elements and beautiful bathrooms.

Joanna Going

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My whole life's been stability. People who have worked with me have for a long time. Air Asia is the same people who started it.

Tony Fernandes

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I think the most important thing I have done in my life is to raise two boys.

Robert Fogel

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Yeah! I got type-two diabetes! I'm sure there's going to be some media scandal now, saying I got it because I gained and lost weight for movie parts or something - but I doubt that.

Tom Hanks

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Illegal immigration is not just a matter of interest in states along our border with Mexico. It is having an effect on local economies, schools, health care delivery, and public safety all across the country.

Roger Wicker

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As recent as the year 2000 we won elections by saying we shouldn't be the policemen of the world, and that we should not be nation building. And its time we got those values back into this country.

Ron Paul

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My father was an immigrant from Austria and he became a lawyer and became a judge and I think he was a good judge.

Mickey Kaus

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I think people have a vague sense that the television system is changing.

Michael K. Powell

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My public life is before you; and I know you will believe me when I say, that when I sit down in solitude to the labours of my profession, the only questions I ask myself are, What is right? What is just? What is for the public good?

Joseph Howe

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I was a Talking Heads fan from the very beginning.

Jonathan Demme

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For a writer, children make life needlessly hard. I've muddled through a lot of things, but I have not muddled through my writing life. I work absolutely flat out, giving it my all.

Richard Ford

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Sometimes I'm having conversations with my friends, and I feel like they can't relate to me anymore. I'm like, 'Oh, my God, let me tell you about my experience on 'Fallon'!' And they'll be like, 'Oh, my God, let me tell you about my trip to the mall!' It sometimes feels lonely.

Lilly Singh

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