"Find a pile of gold and sit on…" — John Gardner

"Find a pile of gold and sit on it."

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42 Quotes by John Gardner

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Art Gropes. It stalks like a hunter lost in the woods, listening to itself and to everything around it, unsure…
The image-managers encourage the individual to fashion himself into a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see.
They watch on, evil, incredibly stupid, enjoying my destruction. 'Poor Grendel's had an accident,' I whisper. 'So may you all.
...ultimately it come down to, are you making or are you destroying? If you try very hard to create ways…
People will tell you that writing is too difficult, that it's impossible to get your work published, that you might…
Art, of course, is a way of thinking, a way of mining reality.
As every writer knows... there is something mysterious about the writer's ability, on any given day, to write. When the…
It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish, flicker-flash in the…
I couldn't go on, too conscious all at once of my whispering, my eternal posturing, always transforming the world with…
Our noblest hopes grow teeth and pursue us like tigers.
There is no limit to desire but desire's needs.

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