We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
From John Fowles
There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.
The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.
That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects.
There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.
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.
Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.
Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.
Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.
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