I think we are just insects, we live a bit and then die and thats the lot. Theres no mercy in things.… — John Fowles Compassion 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
“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
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
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
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
“She was trying to write a novel, it was so slow, you had to destroy so much and start again; so hard… — John Fowles Books Copy Share Image
“When I was going on one day in the car about not having any close friends - using my favourite metaphor: the… — John Fowles Close friends Copy Share Image
“I knew that on that island one was driven back into the past. There was so much space, so much silence, so… — John Fowles Living in the past Copy Share Image
“I did not pray for her, because prayer has no efficacy; I did not cry for her, or for myself, because only… — John Fowles Prayer 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
“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
“Sometimes I almost pity them. I think I have a freedom they cannot understand. No insult, no blame can touch me. Because… — John Fowles Freedom 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
“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
“As dori, de asemenea, sa tii seama de faptul ca astfel de intamplari nu au putut avea loc decat intr-o lume in… — John Fowles Amor Copy Share Image
“I am Emma Woodhouse. I feel for her, of her and in her. I have a different sort of snobbism, but I… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
We lay on the ground and kissed. Perhaps you smile. That we only lay on the ground and kissed. You young people… — 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
“She was a mirror that did not lie; whose interest in me was real; whose love was real.” — John Fowles Love 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
“We shall never fully understand nature (or ourselves), and certainly never respect it, until we dissociate the wild from the notion of… — John Fowles Conservation Copy Share Image
These last few days I've felt Godless. I've felt cleaner, less muddled, less blind. I still believe in a God. But he's… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Do you know that every great thing in the history of art and every beautiful thing in life is actually what you… — John Fowles Art Copy Share Image
“When she went out she used to wear a lot of eye shadow, which married with the sulky way she sometimes held… — John Fowles 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
Like all mystics (and many novelists, not least the present one) he is baffled, a child, before the real now; far happier… — John Fowles 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
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
“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
“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
“A look I shall never forget, because it was almost one of hatred, and hatred in her face was like spite in… — John Fowles Hatred Copy Share Image
“It was an unforgettable painting; it set a dense golden halo of light round the most trivial of moments, so that the… — John Fowles Artist Copy Share Image
In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet… — John Fowles Metaphysical Copy Share Image
