There are two kinds of hangover: in one you feel ill and incapable, in the other you feel ill and lucid. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society. It” — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“You will see that Charles set his sights high. Intelligent idlers always have, in order to justify their idleness to their intelligence.” — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Charles gave his hat to Mary, set his lapels, wished he were dead, then went down the hall and into his ordeal.” — John Fowles Copy Share Image
My hatred of crowds, the obviousness of crowds, of anything en masse. Is this why I like little-known books? A general desire… — John Fowles Book Copy Share Image
“Stop thinking about class, she'd say. Like a rich man telling a poor man to stop thinking about money.” — John Fowles Class Copy Share Image
“Poetry had always seemed something I could turn to in need - an emergency exit, a lifebuoy, as well as a justification.” — John Fowles Emergency Copy Share Image
“My only certainty in life is that I shall one day die. I can be certain of nothing else in the future.… — John Fowles Certainty Copy Share Image
“Half by desipience, half by proclivity, he had come to live in a world where the only significant leisure activities were coupling… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“People won't admit it, they're too busy grabbing to see that the lights have fused. They can't see the darkness and the… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I think it is interesting that we have come back to star- and space ships. Jet will do for a transport shorthand;… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“It seemed sadistic, this last wasteland of days. It was as if Conchis, with Alison’s connivance, proceeded by some outmoded Victorian dietetic… — John Fowles Time Copy Share Image
“Your first reaction is the characteristic one of your contrasuggestible century: to disbelieve, to disprove. I see this very clearly underneath your… — John Fowles Disbelief Copy Share Image
“The stairs were certainly steep; and in those days, when they could rarely see their own feet, women were always falling; it… — John Fowles Humor Copy Share Image
It is not only species of animal that die out, but whole species of feeling. And if you are wise you will… — John Fowles Animal Copy Share Image
“Yet this distance, all those abysses unbridged and then unbridgeable by radio, television, cheap travel and the rest, was not wholly bad.… — John Fowles Bad people Copy Share Image
Only one same reason is shared by all of us: we wish to create worlds as real as, but other than the… — John Fowles Character Copy Share Image
I suppose I'd had, by the standards of that pre-permissive time, a good deal of sex for my age. Girls, or a… — John Fowles Age Copy Share Image
“I am Mrs. Poulteney. I have come to take up residence. Kindly inform your Master." "His Infinitude has been informed of your… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Man is an everlack, an infinite withoutness, afloat on an apparently endless ocean of apparently endless indifference to individual things. Obscurely he… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“I said earlier that we are all poets, though not many of us write poetry; and so are we all novelists, that… — John Fowles Habits Copy Share Image
“There were just all those evenings we sat together and it doesn't seem possible that it will never be again. It was… — John Fowles Poetry Copy Share Image
“He makes me change, he makes me want to dance round him, bewilder him, dazzle him, dumbfound him. He' so slow, so… — John Fowles Ordinary man Copy Share Image
“She was a mirror that did not lie; whose interest in me was real; whose love was real.” — John Fowles Love Copy Share Image
I don't think the English like me. I sold a colossal best seller in America, and they never really forgave me. — John Fowles America Copy Share Image
But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it's no go if your personality isn't worth translating. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“It was curious how quiet that last evening was; as if I had already left, and we were just two ghosts talking… — John Fowles Awkwardness Copy Share Image
“I had got away from what I hated, but I hadn’t found where I loved, and so I pretended that there was… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
The word is the most imprecise of signs. Only a science-obsessed age could fail to comprehend that this is its great virtue,… — John Fowles Age Copy Share Image
In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters. — John Fowles Civilization Copy Share Image
“Tavainimene on tsivilisatsiooni nuhtlus. Aga tema on juba ebatavaliselt tavaline.” — John Fowles Human nature Copy Share Image
Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base-in both… — John Fowles Baseball Copy Share Image
Piers is always going on about how he hated Stowe. As if that solves everything, as if to hate something means it… — John Fowles Hate Copy Share Image
Think. In a minute from now you could be saying, I risked death. I threw for life, and I won life. It… — John Fowles Death Copy Share Image
All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“I'm only happy when I forget to exist. When just my eyes or my ears or my skin exist.” — John Fowles Existence Copy Share Image
Wealth is a monster. It takes a month to learn to control it financially. And many years to learn to control it… — John Fowles Money Copy Share Image
There is no plan. All is hazard. And the only thing that will preserve us is ourselves. — John Fowles Hazard Copy Share Image
The privileges of knowledge have to be bought at the cost of the consolations of ignorance. — John Fowles Consolation Copy Share Image
