John Barth
John Barth
John Simmons Barthis an American writer, best known for his postmodernist and metafictional fiction...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth27 May 1930
CountryUnited States of America
opinion horror
The horror of our history has purged me of opinions.
betrayal writing men
To turn experience into speech - that is, to classify, to categorize, to conceptualize, to grammarize, to syntactify it - is always a betrayal of experience, a falsification of it; but only so betrayed can it be dealt with at all, and only in so dealing with it did I ever feel a man, alive and kicking.
mistake coaching levels
Finally you begin to make your mistakes on the highest level-let's say the upper slopes of slippery Parnassus-and it's at that point you need coaching.
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ships sometimes skipper
Like an ox-cart driver in monsoon season or the skipper of a grounded ship, one must sometimes go forward by going back.
life tuition
Though life's tuition is always ruinous, inexorably we learn.
self loathing self-loathing
Nothing is loathsomer than the self-loathing of a self one loathes.
history knaves events
History - an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant
writing years knowing
A curious thing about written literature: It is about four thousand years old, but we have no way of knowing whether four thousand years constitutes senility or the maiden blush of youth.
secret wish lovers
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.
lions world innocence
Tis e'er the lot of the innocent in the world, to fly to the wolf for succor from the lion.
hero boys thrown
not every boy thrown to the wolves becomes a hero.
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girl simple civilization
Somewhere in the world there was a young woman with such splendid understanding that she'd see him entire, like a poem or story, and find his words so valuable after all that when he confessed his apprehensions she would explain why they were in fact the very things that made him precious to her...and to Western Civilization! There was no such girl, the simple truth being.