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All Quotes by author - John Fowles

" An answer is always a form of death. "

" Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man. "

" Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical. "

" I don't think the English like me. I sold a colossal best seller in America, and they never really forgave me. "

" In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters. "

" In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me. "

" Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them. "

" Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want. "

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

" That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects. "

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

" There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world. "

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

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

" The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time. "

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

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