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John Fowles

"These question-boundaries ...are ours, not of reality. We are led to them, caged by them not only culturally and intellectually, but quite physically, by the restlessness of our eyes and their limited field and acuity of vision."

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"These question-boundaries ...are ours, not of reality. We are led to them, caged by them not only culturally and intellectually, but quite physically, by the restlessness of our eyes and their limited field and acuity of vision."

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"The Judgement is not a question, it's a sure answer, as to a clump of dough, that will yeast and rise, or go in the oven and burn to crust."

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"Can any man sacrifice is life for his fellow man?"

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"I guess it's better to have a chalk smile, than an ink smile. Where chalk changes with the direction of wind, ink stays as a deep stain. Like rain, sun and hail against a fake plant."

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"I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment."
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"For him the tragedy of Homo sapiens is that the least fit to survive breed the most."
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"If there is a God he's a great loathsome spider in the darkness."
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"In our age it is not sex that raises its ugly head, but love."
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"I love honesty and freedom and giving. 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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"Labor is a man crowning glory.""Not this man's.""I quote Marx"I raised my hands. The pickaxe handle had been rough."I quote blisters."
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"Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man."
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"Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them."
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"You have shared your secret. I think you will find it to be an unburdening in many other ways. You have very considerable natural advantages. You have nothing to fear from life. A day will come when these recent unhappy years may seem no more than that cloud-stain over there upon Chesil Bank. You shall stand in sunlight-and smile at your own past sorrows."
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