Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I am going to explain to you why we went to war. Why mankind always does to war. It is not social… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I am going to explain to you why we went to war. Why mankind always goes to war. It is not social… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
We can sometimes recognize the looks of a century ago on a modern face; but never those of a century to come. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“When she went out she used to wear a lot of eye shadow, which married with the sulky way she sometimes held… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Hazard has conditioned us to live in hazard. All our pleasures are dependant upon it. Even though I arrange for a pleasure;… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
It's no good. I've been trying to sleep for the last half-hour, and I can't. Writing here is a sort of drug.… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Hazard has conditioned us to live in hazard. All our pleasures are dependent on it. Even though I arrange for a pleasure,… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“The evolution of human mentality has put us all in vitro now, behind the glass wall of our own ingenuity.” — 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
That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects. — 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
There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist. — 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 never see… — John Fowles 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
