114 Quotes by John Barth

[T]he world is richer in associations than meanings . . . and it is the part of wisdom to distinguish between the two.

The nightsea journey may be absurd, but here we swim, will-we nill-we, against the flood, onward and upward, toward a shore that may not exist and couldn't be reached if it did.

En ningún caso, solía insistir, comprendían los magos necesariamente su arte, a pesar de que la experiencia lo había llevado a un par de conclusiones generales sobre el tema. Por ejemplo, que cada vez que aprendía algo nuevo sobre sus poderes, esos poderes disminuían, o en todo caso, quedaban alterados.

we don't know what drives and sustains us, only that we are most miserably driven and, imperfectly, sustained.

He wishes he had never entered the funhouse. But he has. Then he wishes he were dead. But he's not. Therefore he will construct funhouses for others and be their secret operator -- though he would rather be among the lovers for whom funhouses are designed.

the enemy you flee is not exterior to yourself

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Mainly it's the public documents of the defendants that will prove the case.