Collector Fowles Quotes & Sayings

Come up and be a kite,
On a diamond flight! — Kate Bush

The Collector [John Fowles book] does such a good job of capturing the mindset of a capturer, and also that's become a banal trope of every second crime novel: the weirdo, fetishistic watcher/stalker/kidnapper/kidnapper of women or children. — Emma Donoghue

The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out. — Iris Chang

There aint never a horse that could'nt be rode
and never a rider that could'nt be throwed — Gary Cooper

And, sure, if you have a political point of view, you have every right to share it. But you have to be careful not to get too self-important. You have to find the balance between being entertaining and being preachy. — Patrick Dempsey

I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment. — John Fowles

I've never considered joining Twitter, nor do I know why anybody would. — Nick Saban

It is me. I am his madness. For years he's been looking for something to put his madness into. And he found me. — John Fowles

You make tears look exquisite, but they're not meant for you. — Calia Read

Its ok to be different, the climate is not the same in every mind — Bangambiki Habyarimana

People sometimes find Buddhism pessimistic, saying there is too much talk about death. It's essential to understand that Buddhists don't contemplate death because they are morbid or depressed; they focus on death, mortality, and human frailty as a means of better understanding and appreciating life. — Lama Surya Das

It's a strange thing, to never know peace. To know that no matter where you go, there is no sanctuary. That the threat of pain is always a whisper away. — Tahereh Mafi

Its the same everywhere. If you want big grief, look to the ladies. — Terry Pratchett

When you get wet, it usually means something good. — Bill Belichick

It's despair at the lack of feeling, of love, of reason in the world. It's despair that anyone can even contemplate the idea of dropping a bomb or ordering that it should be dropped. It's despair that so few of us care. It's despair that there's so much brutality and callousness in the world. It's despair that perfectly normal young men can be made vicious and evil because they've won a lot of money. And then do what you've done to me. — John Fowles

Then, finally, we were ready to charge in and save Sadie, and she rides up in a limousine driven by an ugly dwarf in a swimsuit, and she accuses us of being late.
So when she told us the dwarf was driving us to Russia, I was like, "Whatever." And I got into the car. — Rick Riordan

Tolerance is not a Christian value. Charity, justice, mercy, prudence, honesty
these are Christian values. — Charles J. Chaput

He's a collector. That's the great dead thing in him. — John Fowles

There is a kind way of assisting our fellow-creatures which is enough to break their hearts while it saves their outer envelope. — Joseph Conrad