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John Barth quotes

American Novelist May 27, 1930

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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
In art as in lovemaking, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity. John Barth
John Barth quote: "Those rituals of getting ready to write produce a kind of..."
Those rituals of getting ready to write produce a kind of trance state. John Barth
John Barth quote: "For whom is the funhouse fun? Perhaps for lovers. For Ambrose..."
For whom is the funhouse fun? Perhaps for lovers. For Ambrose it is a place of fear and confusion. John Barth
Unhappily, things get clearer as we go along. I perceive that I have no body. What's less, I've been speaking of myself without delight or alternative as self-consciousness pure and sour; I declare now that even that isn't true. I'm not aware of myself at all, as far as I know. I don't think. . . I know what I'm talking about. John Barth
John Barth quote: "path's should be laid where people walk, instead of walking..."
path's should be laid where people walk, instead of walking where paths are laid- John Barth
John Barth quote: "I admire writers who can make complicated things simple, but..."
I admire writers who can make complicated things simple, but my own talent has been to make simple things complicated. John Barth
He wishes he had never entered the funhouse. But he has. Then he wishes he were dead. But he's not. Therefore he will construct funhouses for others and be their secret operator -- though he would rather be among the lovers for whom funhouses are designed. 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
John Barth quote: "not every boy thrown to the wolves becomes a hero."
not every boy thrown to the wolves becomes a hero. John Barth
I particularly scorn my fondness for paradox. I despise pessimism, narcissism, solipsism, truculence, word-play, and pusillanimity, my chiefer inclinations; loathe self-loathers ergo me; have no pity for self-pity and so am free of that sweet baseness. I doubt I am. Being me’s no joke. John Barth
John Barth quote: "Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for..."
Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene. John Barth
Indeed, if I have yet to join the hosts of the suicides, it is because (fatigue apart) I find it no meaningfuller to drown myself than to go on swimming. John Barth
John Barth quote: "More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles,..."
More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations. John Barth
John Barth quote: "You're certain to get a decision in a trial."
You're certain to get a decision in a trial. John Barth

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