"Content is a word unknown to life; it……" — John Fowles
"Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man."
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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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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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Always we try to put the wild in a cage.
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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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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
— Hannah Arendt
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A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought…
— Frank Abagnale
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A lot of these kids I think are more content just to be on Facebook and the computer than they…
— Dave Attell
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Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Be content to seem what you really are.
— Marcus Aurelius
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I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'
— Lauren Bacall
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with…
— Francis Bacon
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There are very few things that are purely conceptual without any hard content.
— Kevin Bacon
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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
— Ansel Adams
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There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being…
— Drew Barrymore
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Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you…
— Glenn Beck
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Both need each other: The agnostic cannot be content to not know, but must be in search of the great…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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