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John Barth Quotes
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History - an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant (John Barth Quotes)
The Bible is not man’s word about God, but God’s word about man (John Barth Quotes)
I don’t see how anybody starts a novel without knowing how it’s going to end. I usually make detailed outlines: how many chapters it will be and so forth. (John Barth Quotes)
You don’t reach Serendib by plotting a course for it. You have to set out in good faith for elsewhere and lose your bearings ... serendipitously. (John Barth Quotes)
To turn experience into speech - that is, to classify, to categorize, to conceptualize, to grammarize, to syntactify it - is always a betrayal of experience, a falsification of it; but only so betrayed can it be dealt with at all, and only in so dealing with it did I ever feel a man, alive and kicking. (John Barth Quotes)
In art as in lovemaking, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity (John Barth Quotes)
If you are a novelist of a certain type of temperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn’t too bad a novelist, except he was a Realist (John Barth Quotes)
You’re certain to get a decision in a trial (John Barth Quotes)
This is an exciting time. A new chapter in our history (John Barth Quotes)
It’s easier and sociabler to talk technique than it is to make art (John Barth Quotes)
Though life’s tuition is always ruinous, inexorably we learn (John Barth Quotes)
The horror of our history has purged me of opinions (John Barth Quotes)
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story (John Barth Quotes)
The story of your life is not your life; it’s your story (John Barth Quotes)
Not every boy thrown to the wolves becomes a hero (John Barth Quotes)
More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations (John Barth Quotes)
Nobody knew how to be what they were right (John Barth Quotes)
Those rituals of getting ready to write produce a kind of trance state (John Barth Quotes)
All men are loyal, but their objects of allegiance are at best approximate (John Barth Quotes)
Self knowledge is always bad news (John Barth Quotes)
The transaction will enable us to become a single source of integrated products and services that building owners want in order to optimize comfort and energy efficiency (John Barth Quotes)
I don’t see how anybody starts a novel without knowing how it’s going to end. I usually make detailed outlines: how many chapters it will be and so forth (John Barth Quotes)
A curious thing about written literature: It is about four thousand years old, but we have no way of knowing whether four thousand years constitutes senility or the maiden blush of youth (John Barth Quotes)
Yet everyone begins in the same place; how is it that most go along without difficulty but a few lose their way? (John Barth Quotes)
Women thought me charmingly shy, and sometimes stopped at nothing to penetrate the disdainful shell of my fear, as one of their number put it. Often as not, it was they who got penetrated (John Barth Quotes)
Every artist joins a conversation that’s been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene (John Barth Quotes)
You’re probably wasting time on things like eating and sleeping. Cease that, and read all of philosophy and all of literature. Also art. Plus politics and a few other things. The history of everything (John Barth Quotes)
Tis e’er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and o’erlook the motive, and of learned folk to discount the deed and lay open the soul of the doer (John Barth Quotes)
It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we may admire him (John Barth Quotes)
Tis e’er the lot of the innocent in the world, to fly to the wolf for succor from the lion (John Barth Quotes)
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