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Quote by Donald Barthelme

“The aim of literature ... is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.”

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Donald Barthelme was an American author born on April 7, 1931, and passed away on July 23, 1989. Known for his unique literary style and experimental writing, Barthelme is considered one of the representatives of postmodernist literature. more

“I thought there's something to be said for honor in this world where there doesn't seem to be any honor left. I thought that maybe happiness wasn't really anything more than the knowledge of a life well spent, in spite of whatever immediate discomfort you had to undergo, and that if a life well spent meant compromises and conciliations and reconciliations, and suffering at the hands of the person you love, well then better that than live without honor.”

Ifs World Wells Persons Said Hands Seems Suffering Left This World Honor Compromise Spite Reconciliation Discomfort

Author:William Styron

“They came from the four corners of the earth, driven by hunger, plague, tumors, and the cold, and stopped here. They couldn’t go any futrther because of the ocean. That’s France, that’s the French people.”

People Earth Four Cold Ocean Hunger Corners Driven France Plague Tumors

Author:Louis-Ferdinand Celine

“Love is the infinite placed within the reach of poodles. I have my dignity!”

Love Is Dignity Infinite Poodles

Author:Louis-Ferdinand Celine

“In the kitchens of love, after all, vice is like the pepper in a good sauce; it brings out the flavor, it’s indispensable.”

Vices Kitchen Indispensable Flavor Sauce Peppers

Author:Louis-Ferdinand Celine

“A God who counts minutes and pennies, a desperate sensual God, who grunts like a pig. A pig with golden wings, who falls and falls, always belly side up, ready for caresses, that’s him, our master. Come, kiss me.”

Fall Sides Minutes Ready Masters Kissing Wings Golden Sensual Desperate Pigs Belly Pennies Kiss Me Caress Grunt

Author:Louis-Ferdinand Celine

“The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.”

Author:Viktor E. Frankl

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