"There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist."

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Source : JOHN FOWLES (1969). “THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN”

John Fowles

#God Quotes #Definitions Quotes

“Three things are needed for success in painting and sculpture: to see beauty when young and accustom oneself to it, to work hard, and to obtain good advice.”
“If we paint the phases of a riot, the crowd bustling with uplifted fists and the noisy onslaughts od cavalry are translated upon the canvas in sheaves of lines corresponding with all the conflicting forces, following the general laws of violence of the picture... These force-lines must encircle and involve the spectator so that he will an a manner be forced to struggle himself with the persons in the picture.”

Source : "Les exposants au public". Booklet, p. 8, February 1912.
“Everybody lies about sex.”
“It's very passe to think women want to spend a fortune on clothes.”
“I've been wondering for a while now if the CEO role is one that I want - and the one that I'm best at.”
“Terrorism isn't a crime against people or property. It's a crime against our minds, using the death of innocents and destruction of property to make us fearful. Terrorists use the media to magnify their actions and further spread fear. And when we react out of fear, when we change our policy to make our country less open, the terrorists succeed -- even if their attacks fail. But when we refuse to be terrorized, when we're indomitable in the face of terror, the terrorists fail -- even if their attacks succeed.”
“The phrase "global citizen" always gets tossed around with my work, and part of it is that, clearly, talking about being a global citizen is the only way we can talk about participating in globalization without feeling like assholes.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts.”

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