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One of the things I miss abou...

One of the things I miss about teaching is that students would tell me what I ought to read. One of my students, back in the 1960s, put me onto Borges, and I remember another mentioning Flann O'Brien's At Swim Two-Birds in the same way.

John Barth 48 quotes

Printed prose is historically...

Printed prose is historically a most peculiar, almost an aberrant way of telling stories, and by far the most inherently anesthetic: It is the only medium of art I can think of which appeals directly to none of our five senses. The oral and folk tradition in narrative made use of verse or live-voice dynamics, embellished by gesture and expression--a kind of rudimentary theater--as do the best raconteurs of all times. Commonly there was musical accompaniment as well: a kind of one-man theater-of-mixed-means.

John Barth 48 quotes

I admire writers who can make...

I admire writers who can make complicated things simple, but my own talent has been to make simple things complicated.

John Barth 48 quotes

My dear fellow,' Burlingame s...

My dear fellow,' Burlingame said, 'we sit here on a blind rock careening through space; we are all of us rushing headlong to the grave. Think you the worms will care, when anon they make a meal of you, whether you spent your moment sighing wigless in your chamber, or sacked the golden towns of Montezuma? Lookee, the day's nigh spent; 'tis gone careening into time forever. Not a tale's length past we lined our bowels with dinner, and already they growl for more. We are dying men, Ebenezer: i'faith, there's time for naught but bold resolves!

John Barth 48 quotes

Yet everyone begins in the sa...

Yet everyone begins in the same place; how is it that most go along without difficulty but a few lose their way?

John Barth 48 quotes

To turn experience into speec...

To turn experience into speech - that is, to classify, to categorize, to conceptualize, to grammarize, to syntactify it - is always a betrayal of experience, a falsification of it; but only so betrayed can it be dealt with at all, and only in so dealing with it did I ever feel a man, alive and kicking.

John Barth 48 quotes

Every artist joins a conversa...

Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene.

John Barth 48 quotes

If you would learn a thing, s...

If you would learn a thing, straightway declare yourself a professor of it!

John Barth 48 quotes

Tis e'er the lot of the innoc...

Tis e'er the lot of the innocent in the world, to fly to the wolf for succor from the lion.

John Barth 48 quotes

I admire writers who can make ...

I admire writers who can make complicated things simple, but my own talent has been to make simple things complicated.

John Barth 48 quotes

I particularly scorn my fondne...

I particularly scorn my fondness for paradox. I despise pessimism, narcissism, solipsism, truculence, word-play, and pusillanimity, my chiefer inclinations; loathe self-loathers ergo me; have no pity for self-pity and so am free of that sweet baseness. I doubt I am. Being me's no joke.

John Barth 48 quotes

The first obligation of the wr...

The first obligation of the writer is to be interesting. To be interesting; not to change the world.

John Barth 48 quotes

Tis e'er the lot of the innoce...

Tis e'er the lot of the innocent in the world, to fly to the wolf for succor from the lion.

John Barth 48 quotes

It is often pleasant to stone ...

It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we may admire him.

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Tis e'er the wont of simple fo...

Tis e'er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and o'erlook the motive, and of learned folk to discount the deed and lay open the soul of the doer.

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The horror of our history has ...

The horror of our history has purged me of opinions.

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Nothing is intrinsically valua...

Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people.

John Barth 48 quotes

To turn experience into speech...

To turn experience into speech - that is, to classify, to categorize, to conceptualize, to grammarize, to syntactify it - is always a betrayal of experience, a falsification of it; but only so betrayed can it be dealt with at all, and only in so dealing with it did I ever feel a man, alive and kicking.

John Barth 48 quotes

All men are loyal, but their o...

All men are loyal, but their objects of allegiance are at best approximate.

John Barth 48 quotes

It's easier and sociabler to t...

It's easier and sociabler to talk technique than it is to make art.

John Barth 48 quotes

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