"The profoundest distances are never geographical."

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Source : John Fowles (1965). “The Magus”

John Fowles

#Distance Quotes

“It is delightful to transport one's self into the spirit of the past, to see how a wise man has thought before us”
“Books gave us a way to shape ourselves - to form our thoughts and to signal to each other who we were and who we wanted to be. They were part of our self-fashioning, no less than our clothes.”

Source : Rebecca Mead (2014). “My Life in Middlemarch”, p.16, Broadway Books
“I like poems that are daggers that sing.”
“The men may be the head of the house, but the women are the neck and they can turn the head any way they want.”
“I think the audience likes to be entertained.”

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“One of the paradoxes of liberal societies arises from the commitment to tolerance. A society committed to respecting the viewpoints and customs of diverse people within a pluralistic society inevitably encounters this challenge: will you tolerate those who themselves do not agree to respect the viewpoints or customs of others? Paradoxically, the liberal commitment to tolerance requires, at some point, intolerance for those who would reject that very commitment.”
“While the sun God will may your day, sing as a song in search of a voice that is silent, and the one God will make for your way.”
“Increasingly unable to create for itself a relevant body of myth, the modern imagination will ransack the treasure house of the classic.”

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