Best John Fowles Quotes
- Edith Sitwell's interest in art was largely confined to portraits of herself. Art
- All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one. All
- The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time. Century
- I think it is interesting that we have come back to star- and space ships. Jet will do for a transport shorthand; yet when man… Across
- Hazard has conditioned us to live in hazard. All our pleasures are dependant upon it. Even though I arrange for a pleasure; and look forward… All
- I knew words were like chains, they held me back . . . the act of description taints the description. Act
- The noblest relationship is marriage, that is, love. Its nobility resides in its altruism, the desire to serve another beyond all the pleasures of the… Age
- The newspapers are full of what we would like to happen to us and what we hope will never happen to us. Full
- She's always looking for poetry and passion and sensitivity, the whole Romantic kitchen. I live on a rather simpler diet.' 'Prose and pudding?''I don't expect… Always Looking
- I suppose I'd had, by the standards of that pre-permissive time, a good deal of sex for my age. Girls, or a certain kind of… Age
- I don't think the English like me. I sold a colossal best seller in America, and they never really forgave me. America
- Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be. Accepting
- If you want to be true to life, start lying about it Life
- Our knowledge of what the richer than ourselves possess, and the poor do not, has never been more widespread. Therefore, envy, which is wanting what… Been
- You come to the United States not knowing what to expect. Then all your worst prejudices are confirmed. All
- No amount of reading and intelligent deduction could supplant the direct experience. Amount
- The price of tapping water into every house is that no one values water any more. Any
- My hatred of crowds, the obviousness of crowds, of anything en masse. Is this why I like little-known books? A general desire to escape the… Book
- The American myth is of free will in its simple, primary sense. One can choose oneself and will oneself; and this absurdly optimistic assumption so… Absurdly
- Stained glass, engraved glass, frosted glass; give me plain glass. Engraved
- The word is the most imprecise of signs. Only a science-obsessed age could fail to comprehend that this is its great virtue, not its defect. Age
- One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is… Chaos
- Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want. Destroys
- In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters. Civilization
- That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects. Distinction
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