"We are what we have been told about ourselves. We are the sum of the messages we have received. The true messages. The false messages."

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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

#Messages Quotes

“I invented the historical spy novel.”
“No power from above can make one human love another. Love comes from within the heart. (Julian)”
“O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with rheumatics.”
“Your personal boundaries protect the inner core of your identity and your right to choices.”
“I'm in the process of brainstorming with my marketing team and all that stuff, trying to come up with a concept for a late-night restaurant for people in Birmingham.”
“We must not allow our emotions to hold sway over our minds. Rather, we must seek to let the truth of God rule our minds. Our emotions must become subservient to the truth.”
“Allah gave the Qur'an to a very special man, who passed it on to us, for the rest of all our days.”

Source : "A Picnic of Poems in Allah's Green Garden". Book by Dawud Wharnsby, 2011.
“Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations. Man's capacity for decent behavior seems to vary directly with his perception of others as individual humans with human motives and feelings, whereas his capacity for barbarism seems related to his perception of an adversary in abstract terms, as the embodiment, that is, of some evil design or ideology.”

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