"How can you be alienated without first having been connected?"

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Source : Donald Barthelme (1982). “Sixty stories”, Plume

Donald Barthelme

#Firsts Quotes #Connected Quotes

“Cops and robbers resemble each other, so there's not a lot to learn in terms of learning the logistics of committing the crime or investigating the crime.”

Source : Interview with Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. March 24, 2006.
“Your game is only as good as your second serve”
“I write music, itâ€™s performed. After all, my music says it all. It doesnâ€™t need historical and hysterical commentaries. In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music.”

Source : "Testimony". Book edited by Solomon Volkov, p. 196, 1979.
“I grew up with rock and pop music from the 70s and 80s. I had to play guitar in school - it was a music college and we had to take instrument classes there - so I think guitar playing and guitar sounds have always been an influence.”

Source : Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2002.
“I have been able to get a small audience. It's not the huge audience, but it's enough to make it possible to play. I appreciate that.”
“The thing is, all memory is fiction,”

Source : Robert Goolrick (2013). “Heading Out to Wonderful”, p.3, Algonquin Books
“I feel myself shriveling along with my world, getting smaller and harder. I'm turning into a rock, and in some ways that's good, because rocks last forever. But if this is how I'm going to last forever, then I don't want to.”

Source : Susan Beth Pfeffer (2015). “The Life As We Knew It Collection”, p.197, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“In fact I was slightly badly behaved at school and got in trouble. I would get a bee in my bonnet about something I thought wasn't right, and I would ape about too, to make everybody laugh. That was my way through my girls' school, because I wasn't very academic.”

Source : "How Olivia Colman, star of Peep Show and The Iron Lady, made the big time". Interview with Vanessa Thorpe, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2012.

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