Is man a savage at heart, skinned o'er with fragile Manners? Or is savagery but a faint taint in the natural man's gentility, which erupts now and again like pimples on an angel's arse?
More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations. - John Barth
More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations.
- John Barth
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. - John Barth
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people. - John Barth
Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people.
Though life's tuition is always ruinous, inexorably we learn. - John Barth
Though life's tuition is always ruinous, inexorably we learn.
The story of your life is not your life; it's your story. - John Barth
The story of your life is not your life; it's your story.
Self knowledge is always bad news. - John Barth
Self knowledge is always bad news.
The first obligation of the writer is to be interesting. To be interesting; not to change the world. - John Barth
The first obligation of the writer is to be interesting. To be interesting; not to change the world.
Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene. - John Barth
Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene.
In art as in lovemaking, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity. - John Barth
In art as in lovemaking, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity.
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