"The best way to live is by not knowing what will happen to you at the end of the day..."

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Source : Donald Barthelme (1992). “The teachings of Don B.: satires, parodies, fables, illustrated stories, and plays of Donald Barthelme”

Donald Barthelme

#Knowing Quotes #The End Of The Day Quotes #Way Quotes

“Back in those days, in the fifties and sixties, countries had balance of payment's deficits or surpluses, those were reflected much more than today in movements of reserves among countries.”
“We are involved in a constitution-building process of historic importance. The Convention should mark a new stage in European integration.”
“A financial panic is a very bad thing, but a government panic can do far greater damage in a far shorter time.”
“From the results so far obtained it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the long-range atoms arising from collision of alpha particles with nitrogen are not nitrogen atoms but probably atoms of hydrogen, or atoms of mass 2. If this be the case, we must conclude that the nitrogen atom is disintegrated under the intense forces developed in a close collision with a swift alpha particle, and that the hydrogen atom which is liberated formed a constituent part of the nitrogen nucleus.”
“Largely I write from life. ... I write from what happens to me. Mostly about love. People notice the other stuff more but I write mostly about love.”
“... Charlie Christians' contributions to the electric guitar are as big as Thomas Edisons' contributions to the world...”
“If the Mets can win the World Series, the United States can get out of Vietnam.”

Source : "Big Sexy Does the Impossible" by Matthew Hoh, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2016.
“The only people who didn't like The Monkees were the French, and they don't even like themselves, so what's the point?”

Source : "MUSIC: David vs. Davy?". Interview with Ben Johnson, www.silive.com. September 13, 2008.

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