"One of the pleasures of art is that it enables the mind to move in unanticipated directions, to make connections that may be in some sense errors but are fruitful nonetheless."

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Source : "Not-Knowing: The Essays and Interviews of Donald Barthelme". Book by Donald Barthelme. Chapter: "Reifications", p. 188, 1997.

Donald Barthelme

#Art Quotes #Moving Quotes #Errors Quotes

“[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.”

Source : Robert Burton (1800). “The Anatomy of Melancholy; what it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostics, and Several Cures of it: In Three Partitions with Their Several Sections, Members, and Sub-sections, Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically Opened and Cut Up”, p.12
“To the desert go profits and hermits, through deserts go pilgrims and exiles. Here the leaders of the great religions have sought the therapeutic and spiritual values of retreat, not to escape but to find reality.”
“I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again...”
“We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.”
“For national and social disasters, for moral and financial evils, the cure begins in the Household.”
“Being an entertainer, especially in times like these, is really a public service.”
“Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.”
“I was with some Vietnamese recently, and some of them were smoking two cigarettes at the same time. That's the kind of customers we need!”

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