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Donald Barthelme

There's not a strong autobiographical strain in my fiction. A few bits of fact here and there.

I don't think you can talk about progress in art - movement, but not progress. You can speak of a point on a line for the purpose of locating things, but it's a horizontal line, not a vertical one.

— Donald Barthelme art

Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. They've been a laboratory for everybody.

— Donald Barthelme pain

My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied architecture. She was a great influence in all sorts of ways, a wicked wit.

— Donald Barthelme mother

Theres not a strong autobiographical strain in my fiction. A few bits of fact here and there.

— Donald Barthelme fiction

Let me point out, if it has escaped your notice, that what an artist does, is fail.

— Donald Barthelme art

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