Donald Barthelme - Love Quotes

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—Is it permitted to differ with Kierkegaard?
—Not only permitted but necessary. If you love him.

Donald Barthelme

I believed that because I had obtained a wife who was made up of wife-signs (beauty, charm, softness, perfume, cookery) I had found love.

Donald Barthelme

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.

Donald Barthelme

—There's a thing the children say.
—What do the children say?
—They say: Will you always love me?
—Always.
—Will you always remember me?
—Always.
—Will you remember me a year from now?
—Yes, I will.
—Will you remember me two years from now?
—Yes, I will.
—Will you remember me five years from now?
—Yes, I will.
—Knock, knock.
—Who's there?
—You see?

Donald Barthelme

And I sat there getting drunker and drunker and more in love and more in love.

Donald Barthelme