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The ultimate meaning of the angry young man is not known. What is known is the shape of his greatest fear—that all of his efforts, from learning to speak to learning to write, to write well, to write badly, to write angrily, from learning to despise to learning to abominate, to abominate well, to abominate badly, to abominate abominably, to rant, to fulminate, to shout down the sea, to age, to age graefully, to age awkwardly, to age at all, to think, to regret, to list himself in the newspapers under Lost and Found, might culminate precisely in this: a roaring, raging, crazy mad passionate bibliography.

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As Jules Renard said, no matter how much care an author takes to write as few books as possible, there will be people who haven't heard of some of them.

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It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late.
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Donald Barthelme

Donald Barthelme
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Born: April 7, 1931
Died: July 23, 1989 (aged 58)
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