John Gardner
John Gardner
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth21 July 1933
CountryUnited States of America
enmity world saws
i understand that the world was nothing: a mechanical chaos of casual, brute enmity on which we stupidly impose our hopes and fears. i understood that, finally and absolutely, i alone exist. all the rest, i saw, is merely what pushes me, or what i push against, blindly - as blindly as all that is not myself pushes back. i create the whole universe, blink by blink.
sit
We just can't sit back and do nothing.
learning less mature people reasons risk stop willing
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
easily gives momentary pleasure separates victim
Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.
devil exception temptation
One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception - at least some of the time, incompetent or crazy.
build few homes increase next time
Lenox Township has 1,300 homes right now. We think some time in the next 10 years we'll build about 4,000 homes. We should see a 400-home increase in just the next few years.
disguised faced great series
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems.
activity alleged changed conditions fact happening occurred question
The question is not what's happening in 1998, but what if any anticompetitive activity occurred in the past. The fact that competitive conditions have changed would not vitiate any alleged anticompetitive activity in the past.
became caused education major obligation opportunity putting research turn university
The university became the major generator of U.S. research. That caused an opportunity and an obligation to turn that research into results, putting research and education together.
anywhere expertise facility people run skilled
This is a facility run by skilled people and you won't get that expertise anywhere else.
amateur impact phenomenal
He has had phenomenal impact on amateur hockey.
childhood feel-good age
So childhood too feels good at first, before one happens to notice the terrible sameness, age after age.
dream winning years
...ultimately it come down to, are you making or are you destroying? If you try very hard to create ways of living, create dreams of what is possible, then you win. If you don't, you may make a fortune in ten years, but you're not going to be read in twenty years, and that's that.
gold
Find a pile of gold and sit on it.