Home / Quotes / Quote by Donald Barthelme

Quote by Donald Barthelme

“Now, here is the point about the self: it is insatiable. It is always, always hankering. It is what you might call rapacious to a fault. The great flaming mouth to the thing is never in this world going to be stuff full.”

Quote by Donald Barthelme

Author

Donald Barthelme

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

You May Also Like

“Misha's importance and distinctiveness are beginning to be noticed, there's beginning to be some kind of rip-tide here that will soon become a wave of recognition for a book that the world is beginning to catch up to... We weren't ready before. We'd better be ready now. Because it's the 21st century, any minute now, and that means that Misha's time has come. In more ways than one.”

World Way Kind Mean Book Minutes Century Ready Importance Wave Recognition Tides 21st Century Rip

Author:John Shirley

“As far as I know Misha wrote the first cyberpunk poetry.”

Knows Firsts Cyberpunk

Author:John Shirley

“Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it's yellow.”

Silence Golden Yellow Freedom Of Speech Silence Is Your Freedom Silence Is Golden

Author:Edmund Burke

“When I see nothing annihilated, and not even a drop of water wasted, I cannot suspect the annihilation of souls Thus finding myself to exist in the world, I believe I shall, in some shape or other, always exist; with all the inconveniences human life is liable to, I shall not object to a new edition of mine; hoping, however, that the errata of the last may be corrected.”

“I am what I am and that's all that I am and if I'm supposed to be somebody else, why do I look like me?”

Ifs Looks Like Me Supposed To Be I Am What I Am

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“I believe ... that the soul of man is immortal and will be treated with justice in another life, respecting its conduct in this.”

Source: Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin ...

“Where there's no law, there's no bread.”

Book:The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac

Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac

“However tiresome to others, the most indefatigable orator is never tedious to himself. The sound of his own voice never loses its harmony to his own ear; and among the delusions, which self-love is ever assiduous in attempting to pass upon virtue, he fancies himself to be sounding the sweetest tones”

Self Sound Voice Loses Love Is Virtue Self Love Ears Harmony Tone Fancy Delusion Attempting Sweetest Tedious Orators Tiresome

Book:Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory: Delivered to the Classes of Senior and Junior Sophisters in Harvard University

Source: Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory: Delivered to the Classes of Senior and Junior Sophisters in Harvard University

“The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings of average intelligence will, if given a chance, learn the right and best course by bitter experience.”

People Ifs Humans Government Courses Given Chance Human Beings Theory Normal Democratic Average Bitter Democratic Government Given A Chance Bitter Experience

Book:Black Folk Then and Now (The Oxford W.E.B. Du Bois): An Essay in the History and Sociology of the Negro Race

Source: Black Folk Then and Now (The Oxford W.E.B. Du Bois): An Essay in the History and Sociology of the Negro Race

“I think my deepest criticism of the educational system . . . is that it's all based upon a distrust of the student. Don't trust him to follow his own leads; guide him; tell him what to do; tell him what he should think; tell him what he should learn. Consequently at the very age when he should be developing adult characteristics of choice and decision making, when he should be trusted on some of those things, trusted to make mistakes and to learn from those mistakes, he is, instead, regimented and shoved into a curriculum, whether it fits him or not.”