"The story of your life is not your life; it's your story."

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Source : John Barth (2006). “Where Three Roads Meet”, p.80, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

John Barth

#Stories Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“Luck is created by the prepared.”
“People always talk about the content, in terms of the politics of it or whatever social issues are in it, and it's like, "Yeah, but I'm also a good comic." You could at least talk about the form of it, and I feel like that's always the thing that's missed.”

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“I found my niche as a character actor, and I've never felt like a movie star or teen idol and never wanted to.”
“There comes a time in the life of every human when he or she must decide to risk â€˜his life, his fortune and his sacred honorâ€™ on an outcome dubious. Those who fail the challenge are merely overgrown children, can never be anything else.”
“... If we consider the difference between William Henry Jackson packing in his camera by mule, and the person stepping for a moment from his car to take a picture with his Instamatic, it becomes clear how some of our space has vanished; if the time it takes to cross space is a way by which we define it, then to arrive at a view of space 'in no time' is to have denied its reality.”
“The only way you can hurt your body is if you don't use it”
“The aging and decreasing population is a serious problem in many developed countries today. In Japan's case, these demographic changes are taking place at a more rapid pace than any other country has ever experienced.”
“Classical scores go up and down; they're kind of hysterical in a way. And movie scores are much more - they just drive and move forward, and they build and can't go up and down at that same speed. It's a big job to turn that into something that pushes the movie along.”

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