"Self knowledge is always bad news."

--

Source : John Barth (2014). “Giles Goat Boy”, p.170, Anchor

John Barth

#Self Quotes #News Quotes #Self Knowledge Quotes

“And what if weâ€™d been utterly open? Made jokes about the first wife? What if weâ€™d been that kind of family? Well, I would have been different, surely. But not because I knew the secret. For it wasnâ€™t the secretâ€”the secret that wasnâ€™t a secret anywayâ€”that led to the austerity in our lives. It was the austerity that led to the secret. And what I had been marked by, probably most of all, was the austerity. It had made secrets in my life too. Or silences, anyway, that became secrets. That became lies.”
“Sometimes in life, there are no second chances”
“It makes me happy to encounter goodness, love of work, humane intelligence, and people no matter at what kind of job, be it ever so humble, or ever so exalted, who do it well and con amore.”

Source : Bernard Berenson (1963). “Sunset and Twilight: From the Diaries of 1947-1958”, New York : Harcourt, Brace & World
“My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.”
“We will have to choose between the life we want for our future and the life we have left behind.”

Source : Steven Pressfield (2012). “Turning Pro: Tap Your Inner Power and Create Your Life's Work”, p.73, Black Irish Entertainment LLC
“It's fascinating how much of our sense of attractiveness and feminine identity is bound up in our hair,”
“No is a complete sentence and so often we forget that. When we don't want to do something we can simply smile and say no. We don't have to explain ourselves, we can just say 'No.'”
“Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.”

You may also like:

David Foster Wallace
Novelist
Don DeLillo
Writer
Donald Barthelme
Author
John Updike
Novelist
Jorge Luis Borges
Writer
Robert Coover
Author
Thomas Pynchon
Novelist
William Gaddis
Novelist
William H. Gass
Novelist