Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see. John Gardner More Quotes by John Gardner More Quotes From John Gardner I know everything, you see,' the old voice wheedled. 'The beginning, the present, the end. Everything. You now, you see the past and the present, like other low creatures: no higher faculties than memory and perception. But dragons, my boy, have a whole different kind of mind.' He stretched his mouth in a kind of smile, no trace of pleasure in it. 'We are from the mountaintop: all time, all space. We see in one instant the passionate vision and the blowout. John Gardner memories boys past To write with taste, in the highest sense, is to write [...] so that no one commits suicide, no one despairs; to write [...] so that people understand, sympathize, see the universality of pain, and feel strengthened, if not directly encouraged to live on. If there is good to be said, the writer should say it. If there is bad to be said, he should say it in a way that reflects the truth that, though we see the evil, we choose to continue among the living. The true artist [...] gets his sense of worth and honor from his conviction that art is powerful-- John Gardner pain suicide art When I was a child I truly loved: Unthinking love as calm and deep As the North Sea. But I have lived, And now I do not sleep. John Gardner sea sleep children In university courses we do exercises. Term papers, quizzes, final examinations are not meant for publication. We move through a course on Dostoevsky or Poe as we move through a mildly good cocktail party, picking up the good bits of food or conversation, bearing with the rest, going home when it comes to seem the reasonable thing to do. Art, at those moments when it feels most like art -- when we feel most alive, most alert, most triumphant -- is less like a cocktail party than a tank full of sharks. John Gardner home art moving Find a pile of gold and sit on it. John Gardner gold There is no limit to desire but desire's needs. John Gardner limits desire needs So childhood too feels good at first, before one happens to notice the terrible sameness, age after age. John Gardner childhood feel-good age i understand that the world was nothing: a mechanical chaos of casual, brute enmity on which we stupidly impose our hopes and fears. i understood that, finally and absolutely, i alone exist. all the rest, i saw, is merely what pushes me, or what i push against, blindly - as blindly as all that is not myself pushes back. i create the whole universe, blink by blink. John Gardner enmity saws world I cannot believe such monstrous energy of grief can lead to nothing! John Gardner grief energy believe They watch on, evil, incredibly stupid, enjoying my destruction. 'Poor Grendel's had an accident,' I whisper. 'So may you all. John Gardner stupid evil watches Writing a novel is like heading out over the open sea in a small boat. It helps, if you have a plan and a course laid out. John Gardner sea writing helping We know that where community exists in confers upon its members identity, a sense of belonging, and a measure of security. . . . Communities are the ground-level generators and preservers of values and ethical systems. John Gardner levels community identity It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish, flicker-flash in the long dull fall of eternity. John Gardner order long fall I couldn't go on, too conscious all at once of my whispering, my eternal posturing, always transforming the world with words--changing nothing. John Gardner whispering goes-on world ...ultimately it come down to, are you making or are you destroying? If you try very hard to create ways of living, create dreams of what is possible, then you win. If you don't, you may make a fortune in ten years, but you're not going to be read in twenty years, and that's that. John Gardner dream winning years Great things happen nationally when topmost leadership is goaded and supported from below. John Gardner great-things leadership happens The stock is in a steep downtrend and negativity begets more negativity on Wall Street, fitbit would be on our radar once price tells us that this negative downtrend is over. Currently, that's not the case. John Gardner business One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception - at least some of the time, incompetent or crazy. John Gardner fight devil crazy time
