John Barth Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by John Barth:

This is an exciting time. A new chapter in our history.
~John Barth


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/john-barth-quotes/#789f5a5f

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
~John Barth


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/john-barth-quotes/#2590f83f

Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people.
~John Barth


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/john-barth-quotes/#ed0b9755

The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man.
~John Barth


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/john-barth-quotes/#561f45f1

More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations.
~John Barth


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/john-barth-quotes/#81f37537

You're certain to get a decision in a trial.
~John Barth


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/john-barth-quotes/#a8394ed9

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/john-barth-quotes/#f6c8a9cd

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