Creative Quotations from John Barth (1930-___

Creative Quotations from . . .

John Barth
(1930-____) born on May 27

US novelist. He is best known for novels that combine philosophical depth and complexity with biting satire and boisterous, frequently bawdy humour.

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

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

Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people.

Like an ox-cart driver in monsoon season or the skipper of a grounded ship, one must sometimes go forward by going back.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994.
R:	In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994.
A:	In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994.
N:	"Welcome to College And My Books" NY "Times," 16 Sep 1984.
K:	In <a href="http://www.cyber-nation.com/cgi-bin/victory/quotations/qlreferral/quotelib.pl?id=10115">The Ultimate Success Quotations Library</a>, 1997.