"I must fight with my weapons. Not his.……" — John Fowles
"I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment."
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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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By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir…
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I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to…
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Ours is an age in which thousands are driven daily from their homelands by the unforgiving brutalities of war, terrorism,…
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To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre…
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Brutality creates respect.
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We have suffered unnumbered ills and crimes in the name of the Law of the Land. Our men, women and…
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I believe it's a crime for anyone who is being brutalized to continue to accept that brutality without doing something…
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Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventure, and for hides and furs is a phenomena which is at once…
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No civilisation can grow unless fanatics, bloodshed, and brutality stop. No civilisation can begin to lift up its head until…
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What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and…
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People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.
— Richard J. Needham
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The man who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more.
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