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One Quotes by John Gardner
- As every writer knows... there is something mysterious about the writer's ability, on any given day, to write. When the juices are flowing, or the…
- 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.
- To write with taste, in the highest sense, is to write [...] so that no one commits suicide, no one despairs; to write [...] so…
- One must be just a little crazy to write a great novel. One must be capable of allowing the darkest, most ancient and shrewd parts…
- So childhood too feels good at first, before one happens to notice the terrible sameness, age after age.
- 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,…
- One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception - at least some of the time,…
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Trust is the one most important base on which the beautiful building of strong friendship can be built. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle