"What art ought to do is tell stories which are moment-by-moment wonderful, which are true to human experience, and which in no way explain human experience."

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Source : John Gardner, Allan Richard Chavkin (1990). “Conversations with John Gardner”, p.16, Univ. Press of Mississippi

John Gardner

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“I loved IRON MAN: Robert Downey Jr. has been and probably will be my favourite actor for a long timeâ€¦but IRON MAN, THE INCREDIBLE HULK, SUPERMAN RETURNS and all the others feel a little like Saturday morning cartoons next to the carbon black glory that is 'The Dark Knight.' Trust me, *this* is the future of this sort of thing.”
“Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.”
“I certainly want to continue to write in a way that's intimate. I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer.”
“Charles Haddon Spurgeon said that the old covenant was a convenant of prosperity, and the new convenient is a covenant of adversity, whereby we're being weaned from the present world and made meek for the world to come.”

Source : Source: www.christianpost.com
“We are all capable of living each day with a fiery passion and sense of purpose that radiates in our smile and voice.”
“I was definitely nervous turning up on my first day to shoot with Woody Allen.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“A stroke is a very difficult thing. You get depressed. . . . What I found was this: the cure for depression is to think of others, to do for others. You can always find something to be grateful for.”
“We also need a fund that can say 'no'.”

Source : "Finance ministers urge vigilance". www.cnn.com. October 4, 2004.

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