Donald Barthelme Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Donald Barthelme:

Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. They've been a laboratory for everybody.
~Donald Barthelme


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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.
~Donald Barthelme


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/donald-barthelme-quotes/#ba4afd54

There's not a strong autobiographical strain in my fiction. A few bits of fact here and there.
~Donald Barthelme


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/donald-barthelme-quotes/#a6dc922e

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/donald-barthelme-quotes/#713272cd

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