"I read and I read; and I was……" — John Fowles
"I read and I read; and I was like a medieval king, I had fallen in love with the picture long before I saw the reality."
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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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