Happy-camping Quote by John Barth Download Open image ““the enemy you flee is not exterior to yourself”” — John Barth ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Happy-camping Happy-playgrounds
“It’s never the enemy without who brings you down. It’s always the enemy within.” — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“Every person tries to flee himself—yet despite ourselves, we remain attached to this self which we hate.” — Titus Lucretius Carus Copy Share Image
“Yes, I am your enemy, as I was in my other incarnations, but that is my nature, and it is something I cannot escape.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the enemy that was hardest to fight was the one within yourself.” — Aimee Thurlo Copy Share Image
“People aren't overcome by situations or outside forces; defeat invades from within.” — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
“The greatest enemy is conquered only in death. Your greatest enemy is yourself.” — James Howlett A.K.A "Wolverine 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
“i ain't got the energy to argue. i'm an old man and i got to take a shit.” — Johnny Shaw Copy Share Image
“try to recall the person you thought you were and the moment you began to realize you are not that person, and try to… — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
“the thing about books is, there are quite a number you don't have to read.” — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
“a reformer is a man who sees the world's superficial ills and sets out to cure them by aggravating the more basic ills.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“most reviews are written by morons about morons. sensibility is at a premium in american culture these days.” — Jim Dodge Copy Share Image
“if one could learn the most important things in life, one would still have to learn how to keep quiet about them.” — Péter Nádas Copy Share Image
“a man should always observe fanaticism when he gets the chance.” — Charles Willeford Copy Share Image
“don't ever believe that kings were done with when the fathers of the country made a revolution.” — B. Traven Copy Share Image
“we remain children as long as we feel the urge to keep crossing this border and to learn.” — Péter Nádas Copy Share Image
“...our own barbaric civilization, in awe of the act of creation, does not respect creation at all.” — Péter Nádas Copy Share Image
