"There is no limit to desire but desire's…" — John Gardner
"There is no limit to desire but desire's needs."
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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…
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The image-managers encourage the individual to fashion himself into a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
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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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They watch on, evil, incredibly stupid, enjoying my destruction. 'Poor Grendel's had an accident,' I whisper. 'So may you all.
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...ultimately it come down to, are you making or are you destroying? If you try very hard to create ways…
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People will tell you that writing is too difficult, that it's impossible to get your work published, that you might…
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Art, of course, is a way of thinking, a way of mining reality.
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As every writer knows... there is something mysterious about the writer's ability, on any given day, to write. When the…
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It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish, flicker-flash in the…
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I couldn't go on, too conscious all at once of my whispering, my eternal posturing, always transforming the world with…
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Our noblest hopes grow teeth and pursue us like tigers.
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We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we…
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More Desire Quotes
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Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be…
— Hannah Arendt
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
— Hannah Arendt
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over…
— Aristotle
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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All men by nature desire knowledge.
— Aristotle
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Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
— Aristotle
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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not…
— Aristotle
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Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
— Richard Bach
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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
— Neil Armstrong
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I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated…
— Chinua Achebe
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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric?…
— Saint Augustine
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
— Saint Augustine
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