“It was curious how quiet that last evening was; as if I had already left, and we were just two ghosts talking… — John Fowles Awkwardness Copy Share Image
“I had got away from what I hated, but I hadn’t found where I loved, and so I pretended that there was… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
The word is the most imprecise of signs. Only a science-obsessed age could fail to comprehend that this is its great virtue,… — John Fowles Age Copy Share Image
In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters. — John Fowles Civilization Copy Share Image
“Tavainimene on tsivilisatsiooni nuhtlus. Aga tema on juba ebatavaliselt tavaline.” — John Fowles Human nature Copy Share Image
Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base-in both… — John Fowles Baseball Copy Share Image
Piers is always going on about how he hated Stowe. As if that solves everything, as if to hate something means it… — John Fowles Hate Copy Share Image
We talked for hours. He talked and I listened. It was like wind and sunlight. It blew all the cobwebs away. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“I was born in 1927, the only child of middle-class parents, both English, and themselves born in the grotesquely elongated shadow, which… — John Fowles Child Copy Share Image
“Time in itself, absolutely, does not exist; it is always relative to some observer or some object. Without a clock I say… — John Fowles Clock Copy Share Image
If you forget everything else about me, please remember this. I walked down that street and I never looked back and I… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke. We're so weak physically, so helpless… — John Fowles Cruelty Copy Share Image
“The sky is absolutely empty. Beautifully pure and empty. As if the architects and builders would live in all the houses they… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“I want to tell you what's really happened." "Not now. Please not now. Whatever's happened, come and make love to me." And… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet… — John Fowles Metaphysical Copy Share Image
“It was an unforgettable painting; it set a dense golden halo of light round the most trivial of moments, so that the… — John Fowles Artist Copy Share Image
“He makes me change, he makes me want to dance round him, bewilder him, dazzle him, dumbfound him. He' so slow, so… — John Fowles Ordinary man Copy Share Image
“If it makes you happier – I’m free.’ The rain came in sudden great swathes across the tree-tops and hit the windows… — John Fowles Happier Copy Share Image
“I said earlier that we are all poets, though not many of us write poetry; and so are we all novelists, that… — John Fowles Habits Copy Share Image
“I am Emma Woodhouse. I feel for her, of her and in her. I have a different sort of snobbism, but I… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
We lay on the ground and kissed. Perhaps you smile. That we only lay on the ground and kissed. You young people… — John Fowles Animal Copy Share Image
“As dori, de asemenea, sa tii seama de faptul ca astfel de intamplari nu au putut avea loc decat intr-o lume in… — John Fowles Amor Copy Share Image
Even more ominous ... is the fact that since the Second World War a new kind of intellectual has emerged in large… — John Fowles Brilliant Copy Share Image
“All of us are failures; we all die. Nobody wants to be a nobody. All our acts are partly devised to fill… — John Fowles Emptiness Copy Share Image
“Let those love now who've never loved; let those who've loved, love yet again.” — John Fowles Love Copy Share Image
“Girls possess sexual tact in inverse proportion to their standard of education.” — John Fowles Education Copy Share Image
“Nice girl, dear boy." "Oh . . ." I shrugged. "You know." "Most attractive." "Cheaper than central heating." "I'm sure.” — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Thus it had come about that she had read far more fiction, and far more poetry, those two sanctuaries of the lonely,… — John Fowles Books Copy Share Image
That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects. — John Fowles Distinction Copy Share Image
“If Rome, was a city of vulgar living, had been depressing after Greece, London, a city of the drab dead, was fifty… — John Fowles Greece Copy Share Image
You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven't any choice. But it's what you say that counts. — John Fowles Choice Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of hangover: in one you feel ill and incapable, in the other you feel ill and lucid. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Charles gave his hat to Mary, set his lapels, wished he were dead, then went down the hall and into his ordeal.” — John Fowles Copy Share Image
My hatred of crowds, the obviousness of crowds, of anything en masse. Is this why I like little-known books? A general desire… — John Fowles Book Copy Share Image
“Stop thinking about class, she'd say. Like a rich man telling a poor man to stop thinking about money.” — John Fowles Class Copy Share Image
“Poetry had always seemed something I could turn to in need - an emergency exit, a lifebuoy, as well as a justification.” — John Fowles Emergency Copy Share Image
“Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society. It” — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“You will see that Charles set his sights high. Intelligent idlers always have, in order to justify their idleness to their intelligence.” — John Fowles Copy Share Image
