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Good Quotes by John Fowles
- On the whole, dialogue is the most difficult thing, without any doubt. It's very difficult, unfortunately. You have to detach yourself from the notion of…
- The noblest relationship is marriage, that is, love. Its nobility resides in its altruism, the desire to serve another beyond all the pleasures of the…
- I suppose I'd had, by the standards of that pre-permissive time, a good deal of sex for my age. Girls, or a certain kind of…
- The human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed." "I suppose one could say that Hitler didn't betray his self."…
- That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.
- There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.
- I just think of things as beautiful or not. Can't you understand? I don't think of good or bad. Just of beautiful or ugly. I…
- It's no good. I've been trying to sleep for the last half-hour, and I can't. Writing here is a sort of drug. It's the only…
- But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it's no go if your personality isn't worth translating.
- Duty is but a pot. It holds whatever is put in it, from the greatest evil to the greatest good.
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- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
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- Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle