"I donâ€™t think you can talk about progress in artâ€”movement, but not progress."

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Donald Barthelme

#Art Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Progress Quotes

“I have my own biography of Gram Parsons - I don't want to be part of somebody else's.”
“I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.”
“There are significant human rights abuses in China. In some areas, the situation is worse today than in the past. In other areas, there have been improvements. We will recognize the latter, and be critical of the former.”
“The worst of having so much tact was that you never quite knew whether other people were acting naturally or being tactful too. [The human element]”
“One definition of maturity is learning to delay pleasure.”
“Individual scientists like myself - and many more conspicuous - pointed to the dangers of radioactive fallout over Canada if we were to launch nuclear weapons to intercept incoming bombers.”
“The ability to look at certain patterns with regards to urban fashion, with regards to swagger, with regards to cultural hegemony, with regards to the ways in which young people look at resistance culture as a pattern that should be mimicked and admired.”
“I don't know what I'm doing and it's the not knowing that makes it interesting.”

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