"Now, here is the point about the self: it is insatiable. It is always, always hankering. It is what you might call rapacious to a fault. The great flaming mouth to the thing is never in this world going to be stuff full."

-- Donald Barthelme

#Self Quotes #World Quotes #Mouths Quotes

“The reason my kids come to the set is so I can actually see them.”
“It is far best for the Christian never to see some things, so he will never want them. The old-fashioned Christian who will not have playing cards in his house will never learn to gamble with them. One who never sees, in movies and night clubs or elsewhere, half-clothed girls, drinking, smoking, gambling, petting, making love to many men, is likely to miss being led into that kind of life by these sirens of sin. It is the Devil's game to make people think it necessary for people to "know the ways of the world.”
“You have trust in what you think. If you splinter yourself and try to please everyone, you can't.”
“I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me.”
“Art is, nowadays, our new religion and museums are our cathedrals.”
“I can feel the power of the words doing the work. Must trust language more.”
“Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.”
“About five years ago, the courses we run in the Field Trials were 52 percent timber. The hawks live in trees, and the quail nest on the ground. Since then we've trimmed back about 1,200 acres of trees to get it closer to the ideal course ratio of 25 percent trees/75 percent open ground.”

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