Calm Quote by John Gardner

“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

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“All to often, on the long road up, young leaders become servants of what is rather than shapers of what might be.”

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“They only think they think. No total vision, total system, merely schemes with a vague family resemblance, no more identity than bridges and, say,…

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“Except in stock locutions, such as "You were paid yesterday," "The Germans were defeated," or "The project was abandoned," the passive voice is virtually…

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“The instruction here is not for every kind of writer - not for the writer of nurse books or thrillers or porno or the…

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“Good writers may “tell” about almost anything in fiction except the characters’ feelings. One may tell the reader that the character went to a…

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“the chief offense in bad fiction: we sense that characters are being manipulated, forced to do things they would not really do.”

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“There seems little or no hope for the adult writer who produces sentences like these: "Her cheeks were thick and smooth and held a…

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“In any long fiction, Henry James remarked, use of the first-person point of view is barbaric. James may go too far, but his point…

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Nothing can be more limiting to the imagination than only writing about what you know

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A nation that values bad philosophy above good plumbing will have neither good philosophy nor good plumbing

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The citizen can bring our political and governmental institutions back to life, make them responsive and accountable, and keep them honest. No one else…

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Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see.

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