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Good Quotes by John Gardner
- We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words on…
- To write with taste, in the highest sense, is to write [...] so that no one commits suicide, no one despairs; to write [...] so…
- 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…
- So childhood too feels good at first, before one happens to notice the terrible sameness, age after age.
- An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and…
- A nation that values bad philosophy above good plumbing will have neither good philosophy nor good plumbing
- 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…
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- If she didn't reply to any of your 20 texts, she probably doesn't have good cell service. Definitely don't stop texting her. — Nikhil Saluja
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. — Aristotle