Best John Fowles Sayings
- That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women seetherelationship between objects? It is an extra dimension of feeling which we men… Abhorrent
- Whole sight; or all the rest is desolation. All
- Science disembodies; art embodies. Art
- All pasts are like poems; one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them. All
- The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself. Answered
- There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid. Intelligence
- In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones,… Me
- Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical. Consists
- We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words. All
- There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world. All
- I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead… Copying
- The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night? Craving
- Greece is like a mirror. It makes you suffer. Then you learn.' To live alone?' To live. With what you are. Alone
- Between skin and skin, there is only light. Inspirational
- It is not only species of animal that die out, but whole species of feeling. And if you are wise you will never pity the… Animal
- When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies Dies
- It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live. Begin
- Piers is always going on about how he hated Stowe. As if that solves everything, as if to hate something means it can't have affected… Affected
- He knew the world and its absurdities as only an intelligent Irishman can; which is to say that where his knowledge or memory failed him,… Absurdities
- It was too exactly as imagined to be true. But I felt as gladly and expectantly disorientated, as happily and alertly alone, as Alice in… Alertly
- Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive. Alive
- Forgetting’s not something you do, it happens to you. Only it didn’t happen to me. Didn
- It's despair at the lack of feeling, of love, of reason in the world. It's despair that anyone can even contemplate the idea of dropping… Anyone
- He is solid; immovable, iron-willed. He showed me one day his killing bottle. I'm imprisoned in it. Fluttering against the glass. Because I can see… All
- 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… All
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