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John Gardner quotes about world

American Novelist July 21, 1933 – September 14, 1982

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John Gardner quote: "He was saner than anyone --had fallen out of the world of..."
He was saner than anyone --had fallen out of the world of illusion: love, interesting work, hope for the future. John Gardner
All order, I've come to understand, is theoretical, unreal? a harmless, sensible, smiling mask men slide between the two great, dark realities, the self and the world? two snake pits. John Gardner
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. John Gardner
Theology does not thrive in the world of action and reaction, change: it grows on calm, like the scum on a stagnant pool. And it flourishes, it prospers, on decline. Only in a world where everything is patently being lost can a priest stir men's hearts as a poet would by maintaining that nothing is in vain. John Gardner
In a world where nearly everything that passes for art is tinny and commercial and often, in addition, hollow and academic, I argue--by reason and by banging the table--for an old-fashioned view of what art is and does and what the fundamental business of critics ought therefore to be. Not that I want joy taken out of the arts; but even frothy entertainment is not harmed by a touch of moral responsibility, at least an evasion of too fashionable simplifications. John Gardner
Fiction does not spring into the world fully grown, like Athena. It is the process of writing and rewriting that makes a fiction original, if not profound. John Gardner
I couldn't go on, too conscious all at once of my whispering, my eternal posturing, always transforming the world with words--changing nothing. John Gardner
John Gardner quote: "The world is all pointless accident... I exist, nothing else."
The world is all pointless accident... I exist, nothing else. John Gardner

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