They're beautiful. But sad.' Everything's sad if you make it so, I said. — John Fowles Beautiful Copy Share Image
“He had the charm of all people who believe implicitly in themselves, that of integration.” — John Fowles Charisma 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 Biology Copy Share Image
We chase the reward, we get the reward and then we discover that the true reward is always the next reward. Buying… — John Fowles Buying 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
“Now I understand why you grow so many flowers." She shifted her head, not understanding. I said, "To cover the stink of… — John Fowles Facade Copy Share Image
“It was like a journey into space. I was standing on Mars, knee-deep in thyme, under a sky that seemed never to… — John Fowles Mars Copy Share Image
Greece is like a mirror. It makes you suffer. Then you learn.' To live alone?' To live. With what you are. — John Fowles Greece Copy Share Image
I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope - an impotence, in short; and that to… — John Fowles Cynicism Copy Share Image
His statement to himself should have been, 'I possess this now, therefore I am happy', instead of what it so Victorianly was:… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“… if you knew the mess my life was in … the waste of it … the uselessness of it. I have… — John Fowles Hope 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
“Either you enlist under the kapetan, that murderer who knew only one word, but the only word, or you enlist under Anton.… — John Fowles Suicide Copy Share Image
“I think he was a little like the lizard that changes color with its surroundings. He appeared far more a gentleman in… — John Fowles Appearances Copy Share Image
Man is about to be deprived of a great pole - work routine. The nightmare of capitalist society is unemployment; the nightmare… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“I felt like a germ that had landed, like the first penicillin microbe, not only in a culture where it was totally… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Our knowledge of what the richer than ourselves possess, and the poor do not, has never been more widespread. Therefore, envy, which… — John Fowles Envy Copy Share Image
“You may think novelists always have fixed plans to which they work, so that the future predicted by Chapter One is always… — John Fowles Authors Copy Share Image
It's despair at the lack of feeling, of love, of reason in the world. It's despair that anyone can even contemplate the… — John Fowles Bombs Copy Share Image
“I acquired expensive habits and affected manners. I got a third-class degree and a first-class illusion: that I was a poet. But… — John Fowles Dead father Copy Share Image
“Beware of the waiting room." He closed the door at once, as if he had rehearsed that moment. I opened it quickly,… — 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
“There are three types of intelligent persons: the first so intelligent that being called very intelligent must seem natural and obvious; the… — John Fowles Flattery Copy Share Image
“Ideeea ca ne plac oamenii este o iluzie pe care trebuie s-o pastram in noi daca vrem sa traim in societate. Dar… — John Fowles Amor Copy Share Image
“Boredom, the numbing, annual predictability of life hung over the staff like a cloud. And it was real boredom, not my modish… — John Fowles Boredom Copy Share Image
“Cu cat intelegi mai mult libertatea, cu atat o pierzi mai mult.” — John Fowles Amor Copy Share Image
