One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely… — John Fowles Chaos Copy Share Image
“She had only a candle's light to see by, but candlelight never did badly by any woman.” — John Fowles Candle Copy Share Image
“Nu poti sa urasti pe cineva deja infrant.Care, fara tine, nu va mai fi niciodata om intreg.” — John Fowles Amor Copy Share Image
“If Rome, a city of the vulgar living, had been depressing after Greece, London, a city of the drab dead, was fifty… — John Fowles Life Copy Share Image
Wealth is a monster. It takes a month to learn to control it financially. And many years to learn to control it… — John Fowles Money Copy Share Image
There is no plan. All is hazard. And the only thing that will preserve us is ourselves. — John Fowles Hazard Copy Share Image
The privileges of knowledge have to be bought at the cost of the consolations of ignorance. — John Fowles Consolation 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 Death Copy Share Image
I hate the uneducated and the ignorant. I hate the pompous and the phoney. I hate the jealous and the resentful. I… — John Fowles Ashamed 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 Death 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 Death Copy Share Image
The human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed.' 'I suppose one could say that Hitler didn't… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“But she finally had the good sense to see that a long, dull and predictable future was an expensive price to pay… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Urasc oamenii de stiinta care colectioneaza lucruri si le clasifica si le dau nume,ca apoi sa uite cu totul de ele.La fel… — John Fowles Amor Copy Share Image
I am one in a row of specimens. It's when I try to flutter out of line that he hates me. I'm… — John Fowles Alive Copy Share Image
“She had something that is gone from the world, from the female world. A sweetness without sentimentality, a limpidity without naivety. She… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“She died." I had to prompt him. "Soon after?" "In the early hours of February the nineteenth, 1916." I tried to see… — John Fowles Love Copy Share Image
“I saw that this cataclysm must be an expiation for some barbarous crime of civilization, some terrible human lie. What the lie… — John Fowles Cataclysm Copy Share Image
Only one same reason is shared by all of us: we wish to create worlds as real as, but other than the… — John Fowles Character Copy Share Image
“Yet this distance, all those abysses unbridged and then unbridgeable by radio, television, cheap travel and the rest, was not wholly bad.… — John Fowles Bad people Copy Share Image
“I am Mrs. Poulteney. I have come to take up residence. Kindly inform your Master." "His Infinitude has been informed of your… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Man is an everlack, an infinite withoutness, afloat on an apparently endless ocean of apparently endless indifference to individual things. Obscurely he… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I suppose I'd had, by the standards of that pre-permissive time, a good deal of sex for my age. Girls, or a… — John Fowles Age Copy Share Image
“There were just all those evenings we sat together and it doesn't seem possible that it will never be again. It was… — John Fowles Poetry Copy Share Image
All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“I'm only happy when I forget to exist. When just my eyes or my ears or my skin exist.” — John Fowles Existence Copy Share Image
I think we are just insects, we live a bit and then die and thats the lot. Theres no mercy in things.… — John Fowles Compassion Copy Share Image
You wish to be liked. I wish simply to be. One day you will know what that means, perhaps. And you will… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke.” — John Fowles Feminism Copy Share Image
You come to the United States not knowing what to expect. Then all your worst prejudices are confirmed. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“If you are wise, you will never pity the past for what it did not know, but pity yourself for what it… — John Fowles Pity Copy Share Image
“But forgetting's not something you do, it happens to you. Only it didn't happen to me” — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost… — John Fowles Art Copy Share Image
“Labor is a man crowning glory." "Not this man's." "I quote Marx" I raised my hands. The pickaxe handle had been rough.… — John Fowles Crowning glory Copy Share Image
Art is a statement of one in the face of all; not a statement by one for the use of all. — John Fowles Art Copy Share Image
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 Image
“She was a mirror that did not lie; whose interest in me was real; whose love was real.” — John Fowles Love Copy Share Image
I don't think the English like me. I sold a colossal best seller in America, and they never really forgave me. — John Fowles America Copy Share Image
