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John Fowles Quotes


Brief author info: John Fowles (1926-2005) English-born American novelist.


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Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.
Time is not a road - it is a room.
He divides conversation into two categories: when you speak, and when you listen to yourself speak.
Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.
You come to the United States not knowing what to expect. Then all your worst prejudices are confirmed.
The American myth is of free will in its simple, primary sense. One can choose oneself and will oneself; and this absurdly optimistic assumption so dominates the republic that it has bred all its gross social injustices.
Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.
The word is the most imprecise of signs. Only a science-obsessed age could fail to comprehend that this is its great virtue, not its defect.
The price of tapping water into every house is that no one values water any more.
My hatred of crowds, the obviousness of crowds, of anything en masse. Is this why I like little-known books? A general desire to escape the main world.



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Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.


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I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
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Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
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The time we waste trying to find out what life is all about could be spent loving someone and finding out.

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