Barthes Myth Quotes & Sayings

We know that to give writing its future, it is necessary to overthrow the myth: the birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author. — Roland Barthes

It is only the fools who keep straining at high C all their lives. — Charles Dudley Warner

As long as fathers rule but do not nurture, as long as mothers nurture but do not rule, the conditions favoring the development of father-daughter incest will prevail. — Judith Lewis Herman

To leap over the wall of self, to look through another's eyes--this is valuable experience, which literature offers. — X.J. Kennedy

Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion. — Roland Barthes

It's depressing and scary, but he needs to know the world around him because he's fourteen now and in two years he's going to drive. He needs to know what goes on out in the world. I'm not going to always be there. — Jami Gertz

Keep your lips and other body parts to yourself or you'll be headless. (Apollymi) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

There is the little matter of disposal of droppings in which the cat is far ahead of its rivals. The dog is somehow thrilled by what he or any of his friends have produced, hates to leave it, adores smelling it, and sometimes eats it. — Paul Gallico

I believe you can prove everyone wrong, too, Victoria. Your behavior is a choice; it isn't who you are. — Vanessa Diffenbaugh