Provincial Life Quotes by John Fowles

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• There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not…
• 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.
• Our present educational systems are all paramilitary. Their aim is to produce servants or soldiers who obey without question and who accepts…
• The great majority of modern third-person narration is "I" narration very thinly disguised.
• On the whole, dialogue is the most difficult thing, without any doubt. It's very difficult, unfortunately. You have to detach yourself from…
• Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile: that what…
• Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.
• Always we try to put the wild in a cage.
• Like all mystics (and many novelists, not least the present one) he is baffled, a child, before the real now; far happier…
• He felt himself in suspension between the two worlds, the warm, neat civilization behind his back, the cool, dark mystery outside. We…
• And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did.

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