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

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.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

John Barth

Life

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

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

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

John Barth

Decision

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

John Barth

History

Time