"The story of our life is not our life. It is our story."
— John Barth

January 1, 1970

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Barth gives an expanded version of this quote in "Ad Lib Libraries and the Coastal Measurement Problem" (1993), in Further Fridays (1995), p. 239: — [T]he story of our life (any story of our life) is not our life; it is our story.