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Inspirational Quotes by John Fowles
- To despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.
- Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.
- Always we try to put the wild in a cage.
- Time is not a road - it is a room.
- Edith Sitwell's interest in art was largely confined to portraits of herself.
- The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time.
- I knew words were like chains, they held me back . . . the act of description taints the description.
- The newspapers are full of what we would like to happen to us and what we hope will never happen to us.
- I don't think the English like me. I sold a colossal best seller in America, and they never really forgave me.
- Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.
- Our knowledge of what the richer than ourselves possess, and the poor do not, has never been more widespread. Therefore, envy, which is wanting what…
- The price of tapping water into every house is that no one values water any more.
- That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects.
- Whole sight; or all the rest is desolation.
- Science disembodies; art embodies.
- All pasts are like poems; one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them.
- We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
- Greece is like a mirror. It makes you suffer. Then you learn.' To live alone?' To live. With what you are.
- Between skin and skin, there is only light.
- When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies
- It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live.
- It was too exactly as imagined to be true. But I felt as gladly and expectantly disorientated, as happily and alertly alone, as Alice in…
- Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.
- Forgetting’s not something you do, it happens to you. Only it didn’t happen to me.
- There is no plan. All is hazard. And the only thing that will preserve us is ourselves.
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- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento