"We can sometimes recognize the looks of a……" — John Fowles

"We can sometimes recognize the looks of a century ago on a modern face; but never those of a century to come."

— 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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