"I love making, I love doing. I love……" — John Fowles
"I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart."
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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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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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More Copying Quotes
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Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did.
— Sebastian Bach
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Every band had their own distinctive sound, but it was pretty much dancing music and rhythmic music with a tremendous…
— Ruben Blades
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.
— Paul Cezanne
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You've traveled up ten thousand steps in search of the truth. So many days in the archives, copying, copying. The…
— Hsu Yun
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...By allowing businesses to expense up to $75,000, it means somebody is more likely to buy a copying machine, or…
— George W. Bush
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It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for…
— Francis Crick
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The first step is: accept yourself as you are; drop all shoulds. Don`t carry any ought on your heart! You…
— Rajneesh
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The world needs poetry now more than ever. It's the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and…
— Lana Del Rey
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When photographers get beyond copying the achievements of others, or just repeating their own accidental first successes, they learn that…
— Robert Adams
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As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation…
— Boris Pasternak
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I was meticulously copying other art and then I realized I could just use a camera and put my time…
— Cindy Sherman
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Make copies, young man, many copies. You can only become a good artist by copying the masters.
— Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
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