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Frederick Barthelme is an American novelist born on October 10, 1943. Known for his unique narrative style and postmodernist techniques, Barthelme's works are characterized by humor and satire, exploring the absurdity of modern life.

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All Emptiness Marriage Wonderful Apartment Behinds Better Than You Bits Body Book Brain

Famous Frederick Barthelme Quotes

“What had been quiet and restful was now silent and empty.”

Silence Marriage Quiet Emptiness Restful

Book:Elroy Nights

Source: Elroy Nights

“Like most marriages, ours eventually wore down all the cartilage. We were a hip needing replacement. Bone on bone, grinding, day in and day out. It worked but it was hard.”

Marriage Marriage In Trouble

Book:Elroy Nights

Source: Elroy Nights

“There is a feeling of disbelief that comes over you, that takes over, and you kind of go through the motions. You do what you're supposed to do, but in fact you're not there at all.”

Kind Facts Feelings Emptiness Over You Detachment Disbelief Numbness

Author:Frederick Barthelme

“A computer is a wonderful and friendly machine, because it's always just a little better than you are. You're always a little bit behind, but it stays right there with you anyway. It allows you to make the mistakes, and then to try to find out what the mistakes are, and then to repair the mistakes. It's always your friend. It quits on you, but it doesn't leave the apartment.”

Trying Littles Bits Behinds Mistake Wonderful Computer Little Bit Machines Quitting Friendly Apartment Better Than You

Author:Frederick Barthelme

“Meg Pokrass writes like a brain looking for a body. Wonderful, dark, unforgiving.”

Writing Body Dark Brain Wonderful Unforgiving Meg

Author:Frederick Barthelme

“Glimpses is dead-on about the high and tight nineties even as it reaches out for the sweet hereafter of the sixties. It longs for something better, and finds it, I guess, as much as anything is ever found anymore. It's a mean, sweet, wry, and disturbing book, in equal portions.”

Mean Book Found Sweet Equal Portions Reach Out Sixty Glimpse Disturbing Something Better Hereafter Wry

Author:Frederick Barthelme

About the Author

Born: October 10, 1943
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 6

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