"I am never needlessly obscure I am needfully obscure, when I am obscure."

-- Donald Barthelme

#Obscure Quotes

“To simplify things down to their real essence, whenever things go wrong in our lives, whenever our plans go awry and the things we took for granted suddenly disappear, we have a very simple choice. We can either succumb to despair and assume the attitude of the put upon victim, powerless to change our fate, or we can decide to turn the tragedy into an opportunity.”
“There is no other definition of socialism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man.”
“The more comfort becomes your priority, the more contracted you become with fear.”
“We judge others instantly by their clothes, their cars, their appearance, their race, their education, their social status. The list is endless. What gets me is that most people decide who another person is before they have even spoken to them. What's even worse is that these same people decide who someone else is, and don't even know who they are themselves.”
“To turn experience into speech - that is, to classify, to categorize, to conceptualize, to grammarize, to syntactify it - is always a betrayal of experience, a falsification of it; but only so betrayed can it be dealt with at all, and only in so dealing with it did I ever feel a man, alive and kicking.”
“I always think that the most delightful thing about traveling is to always be running into Americans and to always feel at home.”

Source : Anita Loos (1925). “"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes": The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady”
“It's not like I've been vaulting my whole life. I haven't. So my body hasn't taken that physical beating. I'm still on the upscale.”
“Success is not measured by what you do compared to what others do, it is measured by what you do with the ability God gave you.”

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