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John Barth Quotes
«My feeling about technique in art is that it has about the same value as technique in lovemaking. Heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill; but what you want is passionate virtuosity.»
Author: John Barth
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appeal, heartfelt, heartless, ineptitude, lovemaking, passionate, technique, virtuosity
«Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.»
Author: John Barth
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Hero of
«More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills, and proclamations»
Author: John Barth
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History
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bills, handshake, handshakes, proclamations, secret history
«It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we admire him»
Author: John Barth
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martyr
«Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people.»
Author: John Barth
«The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man.»
Author: John Barth
«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.»
Author: 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.»
«There's no question we can bring some expertise, ... I'm sure they have some as well. But we're recognized as the benchmark in the industry on the automotive side.»
Author: John Barth
«This is an exciting time. A new chapter in our history.»
Author: John Barth