"The profoundest distances are never geographical." — John Fowles
"The profoundest distances are never geographical."
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John Fowles
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140 Quotes by John Fowles
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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 further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be…
— Diane Ackerman
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Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
— Richard Bach
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Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone,…
— Emily Greene Balch
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Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous…
— Alan Ball
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.
— Ugo Betti
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Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.
— Theodor Adorno
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It's a big thing now: A lot of people want to be assistants to celebrities. If you're pursuing that, you're…
— Lewis Black
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It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
— Aesop
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Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become…
— Bono
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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
— Victor Borge
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