Quote by John Barth Download Open image “Nobody knew how to be what they were right.” — John Barth ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
But knowing that you had gone wrong, and knowing how you had gone wrong, were not the same thing as knowing how to put… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
And it was most important to do what one knew was right, for otherwise the day might come when one could no longer tell… — Anne Holm Copy Share Image
The problem, of course, was that people did not seem to understand the difference between right and wrong. They needed to be reminded about… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
All I know is two wrongs do not make a right. And nobody's perfect; ain't nobody right all the time. — Alex Scott Copy Share Image
You never know what's right, what you feel inside versus what is portrayed. — Eddie Redmayne Copy Share Image
Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
But it's not enough to know right from wrong. You need the strength to do what's right, even when what you want most in… — Cinda Williams Chima Copy Share Image
Just because you were not right for someone doesn't mean you will never be right for anyone. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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… — John Barth Copy Share Image
“So, I begin each day with a gesture of cynicism, and close it with a gesture of faith; or, if you prefer, begin it… — John Barth Copy Share Image
I admire writers who can make complicated things simple, but my own talent has been to make simple things complicated. — John Barth Copy Share Image
Printed prose is historically a most peculiar, almost an aberrant way of telling stories, and by far the most inherently anesthetic: It is the… — John Barth Copy Share Image
“There's a great difficulty in making choices if you have any imagination at all. Faced with such a multitude of desireable choices, no one… — John Barth Copy Share Image
The first obligation of the writer is to be interesting. To be interesting; not to change the world. — John Barth Copy Share Image
Yet everyone begins in the same place; how is it that most go along without difficulty but a few lose their way? — John Barth Copy Share Image
A curious thing about written literature: It is about four thousand years old, but we have no way of knowing whether four thousand years… — John Barth Copy Share Image
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… — John Barth Copy Share Image
