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John Fowles Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: english
Birth: March 31, 1926 - November 5, 2005

Topics

Great Time Misery Century Our Lack

I remember when I first came out as an artist, back in 2004 or 2005, the record label used to take me to all the radio stations and just have me sit in, like, their lunchroom or their conference room, and play for the whole staff. Just to introduce them to me so they would play my records.

Me Remember Artist Back Play Radio

I think I write about things that are mysterious to me.

Me Think Mysterious Write Things

Female friendships have sustained me from my earliest days as a child.

Amanda de Cadenet

Child Me Days Friendships Female

Imagine if the people who have lived and learned still had the vitality to act upon the hard learned lessons - and not just share in a conversation, but lead.

People Conversation Hard Lead Lived

No one is helped when cultural critics use their voices irresponsibly.

Critics Voices Use Cultural Helped

'Expect nothing and hope for the best' is my mantra. A drama teacher called Joseph Blatchley told me that, and it's the best advice I've had. If you keep an open mind and don't expect too much, then you won't be disappointed.

Michelle Dockery

Hope Teacher Best Mind Me Advice

Sebadoh were always kind of the un-band. We never really lived in the same town.

Kind Never Same Always Lived Town

The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie.

Flower Born Intellectual Nervous

I like having a paperback original. And until literature catches up with the culture - the violence, language, syntax, compression, concision, complexity and diversity that the Internet offers - books still make sense.

Culture Diversity Language Internet

Voters want conflicting things. They want a lot of government spending, but they don't want higher taxes.

Government Want Taxes Things Higher

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.

Beauty Woman Hair Clothes Way She

However far back I go into my childhood, nothing seems to me more characteristic of, or more familiar in, my interior economy than the appetite or irresistible demand for some 'Unique all-sufficing and necessary reality.'

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Childhood Me Reality Unique Back Go

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