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
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
