"The self cannot be escaped, but it can be, with ingenuity and hard work, distracted."

--

Source : 1972 Sadness,'Daumier'.

Donald Barthelme

#Hard Work Quotes #Self Quotes #Ingenuity Quotes

“If you really want to know how a person will operate, look at how they've lived their life.”
“In my downtime, for fun, I engage in philosophical internet debates. Yeah, I'm that guy.”

Source : "60 Seconds With Scott Clifton - One Life To Live", February 11, 2010.
“You develop patience that enables you to wait gracefully and gratefully until the best arrives because you know it will.”
“Simple DNA gradually morphed and evolved, so that you had the coming into being of ever more complex and diverse creatures, until one day you wake up and find there are peacocks and giraffes. Nature is an open-ended experiment based on morphing a DNA code, and ours is an open-ended experiment based on morphing a crochet code.”
“Charcoal or gas. Both give excellent results, so choose the one that best suits your style of cooking.”
“The '80s were a time of technical wonder in filmmaking; unfortunately, some colleges didn't integrate their film and theater departments - so you had actors who were afraid of the camera, and directors who couldn't talk to the actors.”
“Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars.”

Source : FaceBook post by Barbara Brown Taylor from Nov 25, 2014
“What came out of that was an intense obsession with status anxiety. So much of these portraits are about fashioning oneself into the image of perfection that ruled the day in the 18th and 19th centuries. It's an antiquated language, but I think we've inherited that language and have forwarded it to its most useful points in the 21st century.”

You may also like:

David Foster Wallace
Novelist
Donald Antrim
Novelist
Frederick Barthelme
Novelist
George Saunders
Writer
John Barth
Novelist
Robert Coover
Author
Thomas Pynchon
Novelist
William Gaddis
Novelist
William H. Gass
Novelist