Best John Fowles Words
- The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time; our sense of that, not a disinterested love of science, and certainly not… Aim
- He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal. Deal
- We talked for hours. He talked and I listened. It was like wind and sunlight. It blew all the cobwebs away. All
- I read and I read; and I was like a medieval king, I had fallen in love with the picture long before I saw the… Fallen
- I mean I never feel I feel what I ought to feel. Feel
- ...all cynicism masks a failure to cope. All
- You must make, always. You must act, if you believe something. Talking about acting is like boasting about pictures you're going to paint. The most… Act
- The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented. Inspirational
- I do not plan my fiction any more than I normally plan woodland walks; I follow the path that seems most promising at any given… Any
- Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart. Art
- I hate the uneducated and the ignorant. I hate the pompous and the phoney. I hate the jealous and the resentful. I hate the crabbed… All
- You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven't any choice. But it's what you say that counts. Any
- The profoundest distances are never geographical. Distance
- There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist. Allows
- There are some men who are consoled by the idea that there are women less attractive than their wives; and others who are haunted by… Attractive
- Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society. Cherish
- I am one in a row of specimens. It's when I try to flutter out of line that he hates me. I'm meant to be… Alive
- I just think of things as beautiful or not. Can't you understand? I don't think of good or bad. Just of beautiful or ugly. I… Bad
- 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. It's the only… Afternoon
- The best wines take the longest to mature. Best
- It's like the day you realize dolls are dolls. I pick up my old self and I see it's silly. A toy I've played with… Bottom
- We lay on the ground and kissed. Perhaps you smile. That we only lay on the ground and kissed. You young people can lend your… Animal
- People who teach you cram old ideas, old views, old ways, into you. Like covering plants with layer after layer of old earth; it's no… Covering
- That's the trouble with provincial life. Everyone knows everyone and there is no mystery. No romance. Everyone
- The moon hung over the planet Earth, a dead thing over a dying thing. Dead
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