"I couldn't go on, too conscious all at once of my whispering, my eternal posturing, always transforming the world with words--changing nothing."

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Source : John Gardner (2010). “Grendel”, p.49, Vintage

John Gardner

#Goes On Quotes #Whispering Quotes #World Quotes

“I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.”
“But even if ego-death is regarded as the optimum model for human existence, one of liberation from ourselves, it still remains a compromise with being, a concession to the blunder of creation itself. We should be able to do better, and we can. To have our egos killed off is second-best to killing off death and all the squalid byplay that flitters around it. So let all lands be small, and grower smaller and smaller until no lands are left where any human footstep need press itself upon the earth.”
“Every picture tells a story, don't it?”

Source : Song: Every Picture Tells a Story, Album: Every Picture Tells a Story, 1971
“So, if you feel a smile begin, don't leave it undetected, let's start an epidemic quick, and get the world infected!”
“Actually, because I'm so small, when I strike an open A chord I get physically thrown to the left, and when I play an open G chord I go right. That's how hard I play, and that's how a lot of my stage act has come about. I just go where the guitar takes me.”
“Wicca has been, up until the past decade or so, a closed religion, but no more.”

Source : Scott Cunningham (2010). “Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner”, p.71, Llewellyn Worldwide
“Again, if there are really no fairies, why do people believe in them, all over the world? The ancient Greeks believed, so did the old Egyptians, and the Hindoos, and the Red Indians, and is it likely, if there are no fairies, that so many different peoples would have seen and heard them?”

Source : Andrew Lang (2015). “The Yellow Fairy Book”, p.4, Booklassic
“I love conversation and the sharing of different thoughts and philosophies. That kind of stuff always makes me happy. I don't mind interviews, either - I like doing them.”

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