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Thing 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…
- Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.
- Another reason I think the novel will survive is that the reader has to work in a novel. In a film, you are presented with…
- I am going to explain to you why we went to war. Why mankind always does to war. It is not social or political. It…
- Only fools think our attitude to our fellow men is a thing distinct from our attitude to 'lesser' life on this planet.
- 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…
- There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.
- There is no plan. All is hazard. And the only thing that will preserve us is ourselves.
- 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…
- The moon hung over the planet Earth, a dead thing over a dying thing.
- 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…
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