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They looked down on her; and ...

They looked down on her; and she looked up through them.

John Fowles 176 quotes

Always we try to put the wild...

Always we try to put the wild in a cage.

John Fowles 176 quotes

Another reason I think the no...

Another reason I think the novel will survive is that the reader has to work in a novel. In a film, you are presented with someone else's imagination exactly bodied out. The marvelous thing about a novel is that every reader will imagine even the very simplest sentence slightly differently.

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I just think of things as bea...

I just think of things as beautiful or not. Can't you understand? I don't think of good or bad. Just of beautiful or ugly. I think a lot of nice things are ugly and a lot of nasty things are beautiful.

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But I think the most harmful ...

But I think the most harmful change brought about by Victorian science in our attitude to nature lies in the demand that our relation with it must be purposive, industrious, always seeking greater knowledge.

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It is only when our character...

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

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The human race is unimportant...

The human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed.' 'I suppose one could say that Hitler didn't betray his self.' He turned. 'You are right. He did not. But millions of Germans did betray their selves. That was the tragedy.'

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All novelists should live in ...

All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one.

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Only one same reason is share...

Only one same reason is shared by all of us: we wish to create worlds as real as, but other than the world that is. Or was. This is why we cannot plan. We know a world is an organism, not a machine. We also know that a genuinely created world must be independent of its creator; a planned world (a world that fully reveals its planning) is a dead world. It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live.

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The power of women! I've neve...

The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke. We're so weak physically, so helpless with things. Still, even today. But we're stronger than they are. We can stand their cruelty. They can't stand ours.

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I love making, I love doing. ...

I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart.

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But however good you get at t...

But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it's no go if your personality isn't worth translating.

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I am going to explain to you ...

I am going to explain to you why we went to war. Why mankind always goes to war. It is not social or political. It is not countries that go to war, but men. It is like salt. Once one has been to war, one has salt for the rest of one's life. Do you understand?

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There comes a time in each li...

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

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He felt himself in suspension...

He felt himself in suspension between the two worlds, the warm, neat civilization behind his back, the cool, dark mystery outside. We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

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One degrades oneself sometime...

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

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It came to me…that I didn’t w...

It came to me…that I didn’t want to be anywhere else in the world at that moment, that what I was feeling at that moment justified all I had been through, because all I had been through was my being there. I was experiencing…a new self-acceptance, a sense that I had to be this mind and this body, its vices and its virtues, and that I had no other chance or choice.

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The bowed head, the buried fa...

The bowed head, the buried face. She is silent, she will never speak, never forgive, never reach a hand, never leave this frozen present tense. All waits, suspended. Suspended the autumn trees, the autumn sky, anonymous people. A blackbird, poor fool, sings out of season from the willows by the lake. A flight of pigeons over the houses; fragments of freedom, hazard, an anagram made flesh. And somewhere the stinging smell of burning leaves.

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He is solid; immovable, iron-...

He is solid; immovable, iron-willed. He showed me one day his killing bottle. I'm imprisoned in it. Fluttering against the glass. Because I can see through it I still think I can escape. I have hope. But it's all an illusion. A thick round wall of glass.

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There are two kinds of hangov...

There are two kinds of hangover: in one you feel ill and incapable, in the other you feel ill and lucid.

John Fowles 176 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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