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John Barth quotes: Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
John Barth quotes: There is no way to master the fact with which I live. There is no way to master the fact with which I live.
John Barth quotes: All men are loyal, but their objects of allegiance are at best approximate. All men are loyal, but their objects of allegiance are at best approximate.
John Barth quotes: History - an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant History - an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant
John Barth quotes: We don't know what drives and sustains us, only that we are most miserably driven and, imperfectly, sustained. We don't know what drives and sustains us, only that we are most miserably driven and, imperfectly, sustained.
John Barth quotes: Drolls & dreamers that we are, we fancy that we can undo what we fancy we have done. Drolls & dreamers that we are, we fancy that we can undo what we fancy we have done.
John Barth quotes: Like an ox-cart driver in monsoon season or the skipper of a grounded ship, one must sometimes go forward by going back. Like an ox-cart driver in monsoon season or the skipper of a grounded ship, one must sometimes go forward by going back.
John Barth quotes: I admire writers who can make complicated things simple, but my own talent has been to make simple things complicated. I admire writers who can make complicated things simple, but my own talent has been to make simple things complicated.
John Barth quotes: Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene. Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene.
John Barth quotes: The enemy you flee is not exterior to yourself The enemy you flee is not exterior to yourself
John Barth quotes: It's easier and sociabler to talk technique than it is to make art. It's easier and sociabler to talk technique than it is to make art.
John Barth quotes: It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we may admire him. It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we may admire him.
John Barth quotes: Nobody knew how to be what they were right. Nobody knew how to be what they were right.
John Barth quotes: The story of your life is not your life; it's your story. The story of your life is not your life; it's your story.
John Barth quotes: Too late she saw: what she'd favored him with in jest he had received with adoration. Too late she saw: what she'd favored him with in jest he had received with adoration.
John Barth quotes: Not every boy thrown to the wolves becomes a hero. Not every boy thrown to the wolves becomes a hero.
John Barth quotes: A man's most useful friend and fearsome foe is the poet. A man's most useful friend and fearsome foe is the poet.
John Barth quotes: Self knowledge is always bad news. Self knowledge is always bad news.
John Barth quotes: For whom is the funhouse fun? Perhaps for lovers. For Ambrose it is a place of fear and confusion. For whom is the funhouse fun? Perhaps for lovers. For Ambrose it is a place of fear and confusion.
John Barth quotes: Let your repentance salt my shoe leather," I said presently, "and then, as I lately sheathed my blade of anger, so sheath you my blade of love. Let your repentance salt my shoe leather," I said presently, "and then, as I lately sheathed my blade of anger, so sheath you my blade of love.
John Barth quotes: The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man. The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man.
John Barth quotes: Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people. Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people.
John Barth quotes: I have remarked elsewhere that I regard the Almighty as not a bad novelist, except that He is a realist. I have remarked elsewhere that I regard the Almighty as not a bad novelist, except that He is a realist.
John Barth quotes: When you look at this mirror I hope you'll remember that there's always another way of seeing things: that's the beginning of wisdom. When you look at this mirror I hope you'll remember that there's always another way of seeing things: that's the beginning of wisdom.
John Barth quotes: You're certain to get a decision in a trial. You're certain to get a decision in a trial.
John Barth quotes: [Plot is] the gradual perturbation of an unstable homeostatic system and its catastrophic restoration to a new and complexified equilibrium. [Plot is] the gradual perturbation of an unstable homeostatic system and its catastrophic restoration to a new and complexified equilibrium.
John Barth quotes: Yet everyone begins in the same place; how is it that most go along without difficulty but a few lose their way? Yet everyone begins in the same place; how is it that most go along without difficulty but a few lose their way?
John Barth quotes: Intellectual discussion, after all, is the real joy of the winter of life, when other pleasures have flown, as it were. Intellectual discussion, after all, is the real joy of the winter of life, when other pleasures have flown, as it were.
John Barth quotes: This is an exciting time. A new chapter in our history. This is an exciting time. A new chapter in our history.
John Barth quotes: Choosing is existence. To the extent that you don't choose, you don't exist, Choosing is existence. To the extent that you don't choose, you don't exist,
John Barth quotes: The horror of our history has purged me of opinions. The horror of our history has purged me of opinions.
John Barth quotes: Tis e'er the lot of the innocent in the world, to fly to the wolf for succor from the lion. Tis e'er the lot of the innocent in the world, to fly to the wolf for succor from the lion.
John Barth quotes: His head always felt about to ache, but never began to. His head always felt about to ache, but never began to.
John Barth quotes: Path's should be laid where people walk, instead of walking where paths are laid- Path's should be laid where people walk, instead of walking where paths are laid-
John Barth quotes: And never mind that the lessons he meant to be helpful, his students always make people miserable with, and flunk anybody that disagrees with them! And never mind that the lessons he meant to be helpful, his students always make people miserable with, and flunk anybody that disagrees with them!
John Barth quotes: If you would learn a thing, straightway declare yourself a professor of it! If you would learn a thing, straightway declare yourself a professor of it!
John Barth quotes: The first obligation of the writer is to be interesting. To be interesting; not to change the world. The first obligation of the writer is to be interesting. To be interesting; not to change the world.
John Barth quotes: Nothing is loathsomer than the self-loathing of a self one loathes. Nothing is loathsomer than the self-loathing of a self one loathes.
John Barth quotes: Those rituals of getting ready to write produce a kind of trance state. Those rituals of getting ready to write produce a kind of trance state.
John Barth quotes: In art as in lovemaking, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity. In art as in lovemaking, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity.
John Barth quotes: Though life's tuition is always ruinous, inexorably we learn. Though life's tuition is always ruinous, inexorably we learn.
John Barth quotes: More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations. More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations.
John Barth quotes: Innocence is like youth,' he declared sadly, 'which is given to us only to expend and takes its very meaning from its loss. Innocence is like youth,' he declared sadly, 'which is given to us only to expend and takes its very meaning from its loss.
John Barth quotes: Others live for the lie of love; Echo lives for her lovely lies, loves for their livening. Others live for the lie of love; Echo lives for her lovely lies, loves for their livening.
John Barth quotes: It's not difficult to be encyclopedic in a work of fiction; it's damned difficult to be encyclopedic, I suppose, in truth. It's not difficult to be encyclopedic in a work of fiction; it's damned difficult to be encyclopedic, I suppose, in truth.

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