Faint equivalents can sometimes be found. . . . Or it can be rendered obliquely-an adolescent's mental image … - Donald Barthelme

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The highest type of intelligence, says Aristotle, manifests itself in an ability to see connections where no one has seen them before, that is, to think analogically.

Donald Barthelme

Faint equivalents can sometimes be found. . . . Or it can be rendered obliquely-an adolescent's mental image of his or her parents making love, which must be something on the order of crocodiles mating.

Crocodiles, Found, Making, Making Love, Order, Parent

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And I sat there getting drunker and drunker and more in love and more in love. . . And you can never touch a girl in the same way more than once, twice, or another number of times however much you may wish to hold, wrap, or otherwise fix her hand, or look, or some other quality, or incident, known to you previously.

Girl, Hands, Known, Love, Numbers, Wrap

The death of God left the angels in a strange position.

Angel, Death, Left, Position, Strange

The best way to live is by not knowing what will happen to you at the end of the day.

Day, Knowing, Live, The End Of The Day, Way To Live

--Why are we fighting them? --They're mad. We're sane. --How do we know? --That we're sane? --Yes. --Am I sane? --To all appearances. --And you, do you consider yourself sane? --I do. --Well, there you have it. --But don't they also consider themselves sane? --I think they know. Deep down. That they're not sane. --How must that make them feel? --Terrible, I should think. They must fight ever more fiercely, in order to deny what they know to be true. That they are not sane.

Appearances, Down, Fighting, Make, Order, Thinking

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.

Fault, Mouths, Rapacious, Self, World