Home / Quotes / Quote by Donald Barthelme

Quote by Donald Barthelme

“The task is not so much to solve problems as to propose questions.”

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

“My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day.”

World War Mother Literature Magic Talent Doctors War Of The Worlds Realism Second World War Magic Realism

Book:Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings

Source: Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings

“A fairy tale is the kind of story in which one king goes to another king to borrow a cup of sugar”

Kind Stories Kings Tales Cups Fairy Sugar Fairy Tale

Author:Angela Carter

“A mother is always a mother, since a mother is a biological fact, whilst a father is a movable feast.”

Facts Mother Father

Author:Angela Carter

“It is, perhaps, a better thing to be valued only as an object of passion than never to be valued at all.”

Passion Literature Objects

Author:Angela Carter

“Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.”

Dream Blessing Tonight Shelter Many Blessings

Book:V.

Source: V.

“Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care.”

Helping Care Love You Mouths Ass

Book:V.

Source: V.

“What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one's enemy only when his back is turned?”

Book:V.

Source: V.

“You go from dream to dream inside me. You have passage to my last shabby corner, and there, among the debris, you’ve found life. I’m no longer sure which of all the words, images, dreams or ghosts are ‘yours’ and which are ‘mine.’ It’s past sorting out.”

Dream Lasts Past Found Mines Corners Ghost Passages Debris Shabby Sorting Sorting Out

Book:Gravity's Rainbow

Source: Gravity's Rainbow

“Someday it'll all be done by machine. Information machines.”

Done Information Machines Someday

Book:Gravity's Rainbow

Source: Gravity's Rainbow

“The liberal wing of the feminist movement may have improved the lives of its middle- and upper-class constituency--indeed, 1992 was the Year of the White Middle Class Woman--but since the leadership of this faction of the feminist movement has singled out black men as the meta-enemy of women, these women represent one of the most serious threats to black male well-being since the Klan.”

Men Years Wells May Black White Enemy Class Middle Movement Serious Wings Threat Males Feminist Well Being Middle Class Factions Upper Class Feminist Movement Black Males

Book:Airing Dirty Laundry

Source: Airing Dirty Laundry