"Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene."

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John Barth

#Artist Quotes #Generations Quotes #Scene Quotes

“Words are plentiful; deeds are precious.”
“So I came from an environment where I was starved for information, starved for connection.”
“I think the whole tension about romanticism is the way it builds and builds, and the moment it's consummated, the tension's over.”
“I do believe that those who compare the religious Right to the Nazis have fallen victim to polemical heat prostration.”

Source : Richard John Neuhaus, Michael Cromartie, Ethics and Public Policy Center (Washington, D.C.) (1987). “Piety and politics: evangelicals and fundamentalists confront the world”, Ethics & Public Policy Center
“It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.”
“As regards plots I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots.”

Source : 1945 Orion, no.1,'A Conversation'.
“I am all the time talking about you, and bragging, to one person or another. I am like the Ancient Mariner, who had a tale in his heart he must unfold to all. I am always buttonholing somebody and saying, "Someday you must meet my mother."”
“Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license.”

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