"No amount of reading and intelligent deduction could……" — John Fowles

"No amount of reading and intelligent deduction could supplant the direct experience."

— John Fowles

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140 Quotes by John Fowles

John Fowles has 140 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It…
To despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.
Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.
Our present educational systems are all paramilitary. Their aim is to produce servants or soldiers who obey without question and…
The great majority of modern third-person narration is "I" narration very thinly disguised.
On the whole, dialogue is the most difficult thing, without any doubt. It's very difficult, unfortunately. You have to detach…
Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile:…
Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing…
Always we try to put the wild in a cage.
Like all mystics (and many novelists, not least the present one) he is baffled, a child, before the real now;…
He felt himself in suspension between the two worlds, the warm, neat civilization behind his back, the cool, dark mystery…
And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did.

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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes… — Hannah Arendt
Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform. — Julian Assange
The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of… — Neil Armstrong
NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they… — Neil Armstrong
You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer. — Margaret Atwood
The amount of things I have been through and the remarkable ways in which the body has reacted is just… — Amitabh Bachchan
Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God. — Francis Bacon
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed… — Lord Acton
The reason I did fashion was it was the only way to get paid to do anything creative. You couldn't… — David Bailey
But I enjoyed getting sick, I didn't mind it at all. So in that short amount of time, I did… — Christian Bale
And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort… — Alan Ball
Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow. — Honore de Balzac

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