John Fowles Short Quotes

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All good science is art. And all good art is science.

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The sky is absolutely empty. Beautifully pure and empty.

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There seemed many great auks till the last one was killed.

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The princess calls, but there is no one, now, to hear her.

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One degrades oneself sometimes in the effort not to be lonely.

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How can one build a better self unless on the ruins of the old?

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The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.

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Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

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Stained glass, engraved glass, frosted glass; give me plain glass.

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When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies.

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He liked to be popular and in place of charm had to dispense alcohol…

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Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.

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They're beautiful. But sad.' Everything's sad if you make it so, I said.

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There are only two races on this planet—the intelligent and the stupid.

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There cannot be any true leisure until all the world possesses it equally.

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Being an atheist is a matter not of moral choice, but of human obligation.

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We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

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Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.

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We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.

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All pasts are like poems; one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them.

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The price of tapping water into every house is that no one values water any more.

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Forgetting's not something you do, it happens to you. Only it didn't happen to me.

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It must essentially remain a novel of adolescence written by a retarded adolescent.

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There was a bright wind, it was a Dufy day, all bustle, movement, animated colour..

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The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

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No amount of reading and intelligent deduction could supplant the direct experience.

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It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live.

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He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal.

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There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.

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So I strode down to the school like some vengence-brewing chieftain in an Icelandic saga...

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