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John Barth
American
Novelist
About the author
This is an exciting time. A new chapter in our history.
John Barth,
American
Novelist
#Time
#History
You're certain to get a decision in a trial.
John Barth,
American
Novelist
#Decision
The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man.
John Barth,
American
Novelist
#God
#Bible
#Man
#Word
Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people.
John Barth,
American
Novelist
#People
#Nothing
#Value
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
John Barth,
American
Novelist
#Life
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,
American
Novelist
#Want
#God
#World
#Temperament
More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations.
John Barth,
American
Novelist
#History