“German is to death what Latin is to ritual religion – entirely appropriate.” — John Fowles Copy Share Image
The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night? — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Death is not in the nature of things; it is the nature of things. But what dies is the form. The matter… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Think. In a minute from now you could be saying, I risked death. I threw for life, and I won life. It… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Because they died, we know we still live. Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I will tell you what war is. War is a psychosis caused by an inability to see relationships. Our relationship with our… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Long afterwards I realized why some men, racing drivers and their like, become addicted to speed. There are those of us who… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“I was worse off than even Alison was; she hated life, I hated mysef. I had created nothing, I belonged to nothingness,… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Each death laid a dreadful charge of complicity on the living; each death was incongenerous, its guilt irreducible, its sadness immortal; a… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Maurice once said to me- when I had asked him a question rather like yours - he said, "An answer is always… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Each death laid a dreadful charge of complicity on the living; each death was incongenerous, its guilt irreducible, its sadness immortal; a… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Staring out to sea, I finally forced myself to stop thinking of her as someone still somewhere, if only in memory, still… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“It is not the state of war that isolates. It is well known, it brings people together. But in the battlefield --… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time there was a young prince who believed in all things but three. He did not believe in princesses,… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I do not plan my fiction any more than I normally plan woodland walks; I follow the path that seems most promising at any… — John Fowles Copy Share
“The sky is absolutely empty. Beautifully pure and empty. As if the architects and builders would live in all the houses they built! Or… — John Fowles Copy Share
“The evolution of human mentality has put us all in vitro now, behind the glass wall of our own ingenuity.” — John Fowles Copy Share
Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want. — John Fowles Copy Share
That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects. — John Fowles Copy Share
The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night? — John Fowles Copy Share
There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist. — John Fowles Copy Share
“Long afterwards I realized why some men, racing drivers and their like, become addicted to speed. There are those of us who never see… — John Fowles Copy Share
But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it's no go if your personality isn't worth translating. — John Fowles Copy Share
“Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society. It” — John Fowles Copy Share
Do you know that every great thing in the history of art and every beautiful thing in life is actually what you call nasty… — John Fowles Copy Share
“Yet this distance, all those abysses unbridged and then unbridgeable by radio, television, cheap travel and the rest, was not wholly bad. People knew… — John Fowles Copy Share
