“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
People knew less of each other, perhaps, but they felt more free of each other, and so were more individual. The entire… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
People knew less of each other, and so were more individual. The entire world was not for them only a push or… — John Fowles 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 Copy Share Image
“People won't admit it, they're too busy grabbing to see that the lights have fused. They can't see the darkness and the… — John Fowles 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 Copy Share Image
The diary will really try and tell people who you are and what you were. The alternative is writing nothing, or creating… — 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 Copy Share Image
The bowed head, the buried face. She is silent, she will never speak, never forgive, never reach a hand, never leave this… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
People who teach you cram old ideas, old views, old ways, into you. Like covering plants with layer after layer of old… — 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
