“That is how war corrupts us. It plays on our pride in our own free will.” — John Fowles Copy Share Image
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
“The second cause of failure to enact good stems from conflict of intention. High intelligence leads to multiplicity of interest and a… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I will tell you what war is. War is a psychosis caused by an inability to see relationships. Our relationship with our… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women seetherelationship between objects? It is an extra dimension of feeling… — 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
The battle was over. Our casualties were some thirteen thousand killed--thirteen thousand minds, memories, loves, sensations, worlds, universes--because the human mind is… — John Fowles 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
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
Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these two great… — John Fowles 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 Copy Share Image
“It is not the state of war that isolates. It is well known, it brings people together. But in the battlefield --… — 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
“Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because they imagine it is the one thing that stops women laughing… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“I should like you also to reflect that its events could have taken place only in a world where man considers himself… — John Fowles 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 Copy Share Image
“Men see objects, women see the relationship between objects. Whether the objects need each other, love each other, match each other. It… — 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
