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John Fowles Quotes
John Fowles Quotes
John Fowles
English
Novelist
Born:
Mar 31
,
1926
Died:
Nov 5
,
2005
Always
End
Great
Me
Time
Women
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E. M. Forster
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William Makepeace Thackeray
Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.
John Fowles
Pretending
Duty
Consists
Critical
Trivial
Largely
There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.
John Fowles
Intelligence
Stupid
Only
Intelligent
Races
Planet
Two
We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
John Fowles
Words
Poems
Poetry
Poets
Write
Simply
Who
There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.
John Fowles
World
One Thing
Write
Alternative
Common
Create
Reasons
Many
Novelists
Why
Thing
Need
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.
John Fowles
Nature
Me
Way
Static
Physical
Some
Seem
Seemed
Mysterious
Through
Never
Terms
Metaphysical
Move
Woods
Them
Things
Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.
John Fowles
Ought
Our
Must
Accepting
Always
Being
Inhibit
An answer is always a form of death.
John Fowles
Death
Answer
Always
Form
Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.
John Fowles
Life
Man
Word
Unknown
Also
Content
That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects.
John Fowles
Great
Women
Men
Relationships
Distinction
Sexes
See
Objects
Between
I don't think the English like me. I sold a colossal best seller in America, and they never really forgave me.
John Fowles
Best
Me
Think
Sold
Colossal
Never
Like
Seller
Forgave
America
Really
English
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