Quotes of John Barth - somelinesforyou

“ Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. ”

- John Barth

“ When we look at acquisitions, we really look at it as platform growth. ”

- John Barth

“ Is man a savage at heart, skinned o'er with fragile Manners? Or is savagery but a faint taint in the natural man's gentility, which erupts now and again like pimples on an angel's arse? ”

- John Barth

“ 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

“ Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene. ”

- John Barth

“ In art as in lovemaking, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity. ”

- John Barth

“ Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene. ”

- John Barth

“ Like an ox-cart driver in monsoon season or the skipper of a grounded ship, one must sometimes go forward by going back. ”

- John Barth

“ Like an ox-cart driver in monsoon season or the skipper of a grounded ship, one must sometimes go forward by going back. ”

- John Barth

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

- John Barth

“ Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. ”

- John Barth

“ The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man. ”

- John Barth

“ Is man a savage at heart, skinned o'er with fragile Manners? Or is savagery but a faint taint in the natural man's gentility, which erupts now and again like pimples on an angel's arse? ”

- John Barth

“ When we look at acquisitions, we really look at it as platform growth. ”

- John Barth

“ When we look at acquisitions, we really look at it as platform growth. ”

- John Barth

“ Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. ”

- John Barth

“ All men are loyal, but their objects of allegiance are at best approximate. ”

- John Barth

“ You're certain to get a decision in a trial. ”

- John Barth

“ Like an ox-cart driver in monsoon season or the skipper of a grounded ship, one must sometimes go forward by going back. ”

- John Barth

“ Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene. ”

- John Barth

“ Like an ox-cart driver in monsoon season or the skipper of a grounded ship, one must sometimes go forward by going back. ”

- John Barth

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

- 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's made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations. ”

- John Barth

“ Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. ”

- John Barth

“ In art as in lovemaking, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity. ”

- John Barth

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

- John Barth

“ In art as in lovemaking, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity. ”

- John Barth

“ Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene. ”

- John Barth
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