John Barth Quotes - Page 2

• I don't see how anybody starts a novel without knowing how it's going to end. I usually make detailed outlines: how many chapters it will be and so forth.

  John Barth

  Knowing, Ends, Chapters

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• Tis e'er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and o'erlook the motive, and of learned folk to discount the deed and lay open the soul of the doer.

  John Barth

  Simple, Soul, Deeds

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• Those rituals of getting ready to write produce a kind of trance state.

  John Barth

  Writing, Kind, States

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• not every boy thrown to the wolves becomes a hero.

  John Barth

  Hero, Boys, Thrown

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• If you are a novelist of a certain type of termperament, 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

  Novelists, World, Crafts

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• It's easier and sociabler to talk technique than it is to make art.

  John Barth

  Art, Technique, Easier

  John Barth (1984). “The Friday book: essays and other nonfiction”, Putnam Pub Group

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• The horror of our history has purged me of opinions.

  John Barth

  Opinion, Horror

  John Barth (2014). “Lost in the Funhouse”, p.20, Anchor

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• Yet everyone begins in the same place; how is it that most go along without difficulty but a few lose their way?

  John Barth

  Way, Difficulty, Loses

  John Barth (2014). “Lost in the Funhouse”, p.98, Anchor

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• History - an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant

  John Barth

  History, Knaves, Events

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• 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

  Secret, Wish, Lovers

  L. Rust Hills, John Barth (1974). “Writer's choice”, Modern Library

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• You don't reach Serendib by plotting a course for it. You have to set out in good faith for elsewhere and lose your bearings... serendipitously.

  John Barth

  Serendipity, Good Faith, Elsewhere

  "The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor". Book by John Barth, 1991.

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

  John Barth

  God, Men

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• Nobody knew how to be what they were right.

  John Barth

  John Barth (2014). “Lost in the Funhouse”, p.104, Anchor

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• The transaction will enable us to become a single source of integrated products and services that building owners want in order to optimize comfort and energy efficiency

  John Barth

  Order, Energy, Comfort

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• One of the things I miss about teaching is that students would tell me what I ought to read. One of my students, back in the 1960s, put me onto Borges, and I remember another mentioning Flann O'Brien's At Swim Two-Birds in the same way.

  John Barth

  Teaching, Two, Bird

  Boston Sunday Globe, November 02, 2008.

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• If you would learn a thing, straightway declare yourself a professor of it!

  John Barth

  Professors, Ifs

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

  John Barth

  Loyalty, Men, Allegiance

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