Edith Sitwell's interest in art was largely confined to portraits of herself. — John Fowles Art Copy Share Image
“But forgetting's not something you do, it happens to you.” — John Fowles Forgetting Copy Share Image
We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I knew words were like chains, they held me back . . . the act of description taints the description. — John Fowles Chains Copy Share Image
“Humour is a manifestation of freedom. It is because there is freedom that there is smile.” — John Fowles Comedy Copy Share Image
“The ancient Greeks could laugh at themselves. The Romans could not. That is why France is a civilized society and Spain is… — John Fowles Ancient greek Copy Share Image
Thomas Beecham was a pompous little band-master who stood against everything creative in the art of his time. — John Fowles Art Copy Share Image
I knew I would always want to go on living with myself, however hollow I became, however diseased. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“For him the tragedy of Homo sapiens is that the least fit to survive breed the most.” — John Fowles Children Copy Share Image
“We are all in flight from the real reality. That is the basic definition of Homo Sapiens.” — John Fowles Homo sapiens Copy Share Image
Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile: that what… — John Fowles Astronomy Copy Share Image
“You do not even think of your own past as quite real; you dress it up, you gild it or blacken it,… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“if Greece were a woman so sensually provocative that I must fall physically and desperately in love with her, and at the… — John Fowles Love Copy Share Image
I just think of things as beautiful or not. Can't you understand? I don't think of good or bad. Just of beautiful… — John Fowles Beautiful Copy Share Image
“He said, one has to learn that painting well - in the academic and technical sense - comes right at the bottom… — John Fowles Art Copy Share Image
“Our stereotyping societies force us to feel more alone. They stamp masks on us and isolate out real selves. We all live… — John Fowles Community Copy Share Image
There are some men who are consoled by the idea that there are women less attractive than their wives; and others who… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“It's despair that so few of us care. It's despair that there's so much brutality and callousness in the world. It's despair… — John Fowles Despair 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 Country Copy Share Image
The absurdly neurotic role you and the rest of your kind have always attributed to me Erato, the Goddess Muse of Erotic… — John Fowles Bears Copy Share Image
“Each pleasure we feel is a pleasure less; each day a stroke on a calendar. What we will not accept is that… — John Fowles Life Copy Share Image
“He stared to sea. "I gave up all ideas of practicing medicine. In spite of what I have just said about the… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
On the whole, dialogue is the most difficult thing, without any doubt. It's very difficult, unfortunately. You have to detach yourself from… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Love is the mystery between two people, not the identity. We were at the opposite poles of humanity. Lily was humanity bound… — John Fowles Another world Copy Share Image
“From the hills behind, came the solitary voice of a girl. She must have been bringing down the goats, and she was… — John Fowles Music 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 Feminism Copy Share Image
“She would give herself violently, then yawn at the wrongest moment. She would spend all one day cleaning up the flat, cooking,… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Un raspuns este intotdeauna o forma a mortii" - Eu cred ca intrebarile sunt o forma a vietii.” — John Fowles Amor Copy Share Image
“It makes me sick,the blindness, deadness, out-of-dateness, stodginess and, yes, sheer jealous malice of the great bulk of England.” — John Fowles English Copy Share Image
The newspapers are full of what we would like to happen to us and what we hope will never happen to us. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Henry knew sin was a challenge to life; not an act of unreason, but an act of courage and determination.” — John Fowles Courage Copy Share Image
I think we are just insects, we live a bit and then die and that’s the lot. There’s no mercy in things.… — John Fowles Compassion Copy Share Image
The great majority of modern third-person narration is "I" narration very thinly disguised. — John Fowles Crafts Copy Share Image
“It's like living in the Arabian Nights. Being the favourite in the harem. But the one perfume you really want is freedom.” — John Fowles Freedom Copy Share Image
To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
