“We think we grow old, we grow wise and more tolerant; we just grow more lazy.” — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Edith Sitwell's interest in art was largely confined to portraits of herself. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
The newspapers are full of what we would like to happen to us and what we hope will never happen to us. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I knew words were like chains, they held me back . . . the act of description taints the description. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
The price of tapping water into every house is that no one values water any more. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
All pasts are like poems; one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Our knowledge of what the richer than ourselves possess, and the poor do not, has never been more widespread. Therefore, envy, which… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
His statement to himself should have been 'I possess this now,therefore I am happy' , instead of what it so Victorianly was:… — 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
