Quote by John Fowles Download Open image ““Greece is like a mirror. It makes you suffer. Then you learn.”” — John Fowles ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
Greece is like a mirror. It makes you suffer. Then you learn.' To live alone?' To live. With what you are. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“If you go to Greece you will regret it. There is nothing for you there except unhappiness.” So, just like here, then?” — Alex A. King Copy Share Image
“Athens was ripped from their wealth and territory but their culture still lived on. This now engraved upon your memory, what decision shall you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I told myself that historically when people do too well too quickly, they are a Greek tragedy waiting to happen.” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“It has all the terrible beauty of a Greek tragedy, a tragedy in which I took a great part, but by which I have… — Oscar Wilde 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 same time… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“The ancient Oracle said that I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone, of all the Greeks, know that… — Socrates Copy Share Image
I do not plan my fiction any more than I normally plan woodland walks; I follow the path that seems most promising at any… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“The sky is absolutely empty. Beautifully pure and empty. As if the architects and builders would live in all the houses they built! Or… — John Fowles 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 Copy Share Image
Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects. — John Fowles 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
There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Long afterwards I realized why some men, racing drivers and their like, become addicted to speed. There are those of us who never see… — John Fowles 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
