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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

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

– John Barth

You’re certain to get a decision in a trial.

– John Barth

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

– John Barth

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

– John Barth

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

– John Barth

The Bible is not man’s word about God, but God’s word about man.

– John Barth

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