"Always we try to put the wild in…" — John Fowles
"Always we try to put the wild in a cage."
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140 Quotes by John Fowles
John Fowles has 140 quotes on this site.
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There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It…
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To despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.
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Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.
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Our present educational systems are all paramilitary. Their aim is to produce servants or soldiers who obey without question and…
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The great majority of modern third-person narration is "I" narration very thinly disguised.
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On the whole, dialogue is the most difficult thing, without any doubt. It's very difficult, unfortunately. You have to detach…
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Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile:…
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Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing…
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Like all mystics (and many novelists, not least the present one) he is baffled, a child, before the real now;…
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He felt himself in suspension between the two worlds, the warm, neat civilization behind his back, the cool, dark mystery…
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And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did.
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Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these…
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More Cage Quotes
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one of 388 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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You can cage the singer but not the song.
— Harry Belafonte
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Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb,…
— Robert Burton
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At a young age, I was interested in comic books, which was really how I learnt to read. The name…
— Nicolas Cage
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A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of…
— Millicent Fenwick
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I want my son to wear a helmet 24 hours a day. If it was socially acceptable I'd be the…
— Will Arnett
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You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.
— Michel de Montaigne
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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and…
— James A. Baldwin
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I paid a worker at New York's zoo to re-open it just for me and Robin (his wife). When we…
— Mike Tyson
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I am now a man of despair, rejected, abandoned, shut up in this iron cage from which there is no…
— John Bunyan
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On her daughter's pet rabbit: I don't think he liked being in a cage and wouldn't stop masturbating and humping…
— Kate Beckinsale
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