"That is the great distinction between the sexes.……" — John Fowles
"That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects."
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John Fowles
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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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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt…
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Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
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No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and…
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I don't make a distinction between men and women. To me they are just people.
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Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.
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The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to…
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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment…
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In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same…
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To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I…
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We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbour them.
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God bless my father, but he always spoke in this continental, literary accent, probably because he was a professor of…
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