"Anathematization of the world is not an adequate response to the world."

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Source : Donald Barthelme (2013). “Snow White”, p.184, Simon and Schuster

Donald Barthelme

#World Quotes #Adequate Quotes #Response Quotes

“What I created got abominated.”
“When stuff gets hard, and you're feeling real down about everything or in a cark space, a song can bring you out of it.”
“I've got a little boy coming and I can't wait. It's going to be the biggest thing that has happened to me in my life so far. Bigger than any Tour de France win.”

Source : "Chris Froome: I can win five more Tour de France titles". Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. August 13, 2015.
“The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.”
“Picasso says that an artists paints not to ask a question but because he has found something and he wants to shareâ€”he cannot help itâ€”what he has found.”
“We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.”

Source : The Atlantic Community Quarterly, Volume 14-15, p. 200, 1976-1978.
“It was not according to the Divine purpose that Jesus was slain at the Passover, but it was according to a human invention that he is declared to have been slain at this time. These attempts to connect the crucifixion with the Passover afford the strongest proof that it is a myth.”
“The surplus of society overrides all our traditions and shapes all our philosophies.”

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