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

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Source : JOHN BARTH (1956). “THE FLOATING OPERA”

John Barth

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“I've been on such a losing streak that if I had been around I would have taken General Custer and given points.”
“The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics.”

Source : "Virtual Chiat". Interview with David Dix, www.wired.com. July 1, 1994.
“If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck.”
“I'm Allergic to grass. Hey, it could be worse. I could be allergic to beer.”
“A good deal of Paradise Lost strikes one as being almost as mechanical as bricklaying.”

Source : "Revaluation: Tradition and Development in English Poetry". Book by F. R. Leavis, 1936.
“Being spontaneous, itâ€™s what saved me,”
“The basic premise of taste, as Stephen Bayley, the cultural critic, said, is that taste is that which does not alienate your peers. Most people want to fit in with their tribe in some way or another, so they give off signals, whether it's with their clothes, their behavior, their car, their whatever, and gain status. Every tribe has a hierarchy, and that's what taste is: it's an unconscious display of who you are, and where you want to be.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Working with Jim Carrey is an absolute gas. I have never laughed so hard for so long. Had he been on-board for the sequel of Dumb & Dumber, I would've jumped on, with no hesitation.”

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