John Barth

…you don’t reach Serendib by plotting a course for it. You have to set out in good faith for elsewhere and lose your bearings … serendipitously.” ---The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor ↗

— John Barth

#inspriational #faith

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

— John Barth

#bible #god #man #word

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. ↗

— John Barth

#certain #except #god #novelist #realist

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

— John Barth

#bills #history #made #more #secret

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. ↗

— John Barth

#hero #his #life #life story #necessarily

This is an exciting time. A new chapter in our history. ↗

— John Barth

#exciting #exciting time #history #new #our

You're certain to get a decision in a trial. ↗

— John Barth

#decision #get #trial #you

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

— John Barth

#attributed #everything #intrinsically #itself #nothing