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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

Topics: Architecture Drama English Father Great Influence Mother Pennsylvania She Sort Studied University Ways Where Wicked Wit

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

~Donald Barthelme

Topics: Autobiographical Bits Fact Few Fiction Here Strain Strong

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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

Topics: About Art Horizontal Line Movement Point Progress Purpose Speak Talk Things Think Vertical You

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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

Topics: American American Writers Been Everybody Formal Laboratory More Much Painters Perplexity Second Second World War Since Than Troubled War World World War Writers

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: April 7th, 1931

Died: July 23rd, 1989

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