"To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently……" — John Fowles

"To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape."

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…
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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Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders. — Louis D. Brandeis
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The Silurian Period-the grandest of all the Periods,-and, as yet, apparently the seed-time of all succeeding life. — Unknown Author
According to the teaching of our Lord, what is wrong with the world is precisely that it does not believe… — John Baillie
Once you make the unequivocal internal commitment to do something - when you absolutely know this is the time and… — Sarah Susanka

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