"Stained glass, engraved glass, frosted glass; give me……" — John Fowles
"Stained glass, engraved glass, frosted glass; give me plain glass."
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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 Engraved Quotes
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Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered, and which mirrors the trees, the sky and…
— Edgar Lee Masters
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We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Gay parenting is a rejection of God's law engraved in our hearts
— Pope Francis
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It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable…
— Winston Churchill
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When they bury me in a church and chuck earth on my grave, I'd like the words 'Well, at least…
— Steven Morrissey
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Now is the seedtime of continental union, faith and honor. The least fracture now, will be like a name engraved…
— Thomas Paine
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Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is…
— Harold Bloom
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Call to mind the sentiments which nature has engraved on the heart of every citizen, and which take a new…
— Thomas Paine
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This Grave contains all that was Mortal of a Young English Poet Who on his Death Bed in the Bitterness…
— John Keats
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In the end, the only events of my life worth telling are those when the imperishable world erupted into this…
— Carl Jung
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The memory of past favors is like a rainbow, bright, vivid, and beautiful; but it soon fades away. The in…
— Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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Music is not a language. Any musical piece is akin to a boulder with complex forms, with striations and engraved…
— Iannis Xenakis
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