John Barth Quotes & Sayings

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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.

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

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

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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.

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

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