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Great Quotes by John Fowles
- The great majority of modern third-person narration is "I" narration very thinly disguised.
- Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these two great Anglo-Saxon ball games…
- The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time.
- 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…
- The word is the most imprecise of signs. Only a science-obsessed age could fail to comprehend that this is its great virtue, not its defect.
- One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is…
- That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects.
- That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women seetherelationship between objects? It is an extra dimension of feeling which we men…
- The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?
- One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is…
- I think we are just insects, we live a bit and then die and that’s the lot. There’s no mercy in things. There’s not even…
- The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time; our sense of that, not a disinterested love of science, and certainly not…
- He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal.
- Do you know that every great thing in the history of art and every beautiful thing in life is actually what you call nasty or…
- I think we are just insects, we live a bit and then die and thats the lot. Theres no mercy in things. Theres not even…
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- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen
- My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong
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- Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great. — Lance Armstrong
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