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John Fowles Quotes: "Think. In a minute from now you could be saying, I risked death. I threw for life, and I won life. It is a very wonderful feeling. To have survived."

Think. In a minute from now you could be saying, I risked death. I threw for life, and I won life. It is a very wonderful feeling. To have survived.



John Fowles Quotes: "Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society."

Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society.




John Fowles Quotes: "Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart."

Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart.



John Fowles Quotes: "But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it's no go if your personality isn't worth translating."

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 Quotes: "The moon hung over the planet Earth, a dead thing over a dying thing."

The moon hung over the planet Earth, a dead thing over a dying thing.



John Fowles Quotes: "Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth."

Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.



John Fowles Quotes: "Piers is always going on about how he hated Stowe. As if that solves everything, as if to hate something means it can't have affected you."

Piers is always going on about how he hated Stowe. As if that solves everything, as if to hate something means it can't have affected you.




John Fowles Quotes: "The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?"

The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?



John Fowles Quotes: "I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment."

I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.



John Fowles Quotes: "The dead live." "How do they live?" "By love."

The dead live." "How do they live?" "By love.



John Fowles Quotes: "The world began in hazard and will end in it."

The world began in hazard and will end in it.



John Fowles Quotes: "If a person is intelligent, then of course he is either an agnostic or an atheist. Just as he is a physical coward. They are automatic definitions of high intelligence."

If a person is intelligent, then of course he is either an agnostic or an atheist. Just as he is a physical coward. They are automatic definitions of high intelligence.




John Fowles Quotes: "The price of tapping water into every house is that no one values water any more."

The price of tapping water into every house is that no one values water any more.



John Fowles Quotes: "I do not plan my fiction any more than I normally plan woodland walks; I follow the path that seems most promising at any given point, not some itinerary decided before entry."

I do not plan my fiction any more than I normally plan woodland walks; I follow the path that seems most promising at any given point, not some itinerary decided before entry.



John Fowles Quotes: "Art is a statement of one in the face of all; not a statement by one for the use of all."

Art is a statement of one in the face of all; not a statement by one for the use of all.



John Fowles Quotes: "And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did."

And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did.



John Fowles Quotes: "We chase the reward, we get the reward and then we discover that the true reward is always the next reward. Buying pleasure is a false end."

We chase the reward, we get the reward and then we discover that the true reward is always the next reward. Buying pleasure is a false end.



John Fowles Quotes: "Wealth is a monster. It takes a month to learn to control it financially. And many years to learn to control it psychologically."

Wealth is a monster. It takes a month to learn to control it financially. And many years to learn to control it psychologically.



John Fowles Quotes: "There cannot be any true leisure until all the world possesses it equally."

There cannot be any true leisure until all the world possesses it equally.



John Fowles Quotes: "Death is the room that is always empty."

Death is the room that is always empty.



John Fowles Quotes: "There are some men who are consoled by the idea that there are women less attractive than their wives; and others who are haunted by the knowledge that there are more attractive."

There are some men who are consoled by the idea that there are women less attractive than their wives; and others who are haunted by the knowledge that there are more attractive.



John Fowles Quotes: "Love is the mystery between two people, not the identity."

Love is the mystery between two people, not the identity.



John Fowles Quotes: "They looked down on her; and she looked up through them."

They looked down on her; and she looked up through them.



John Fowles Quotes: "The privileges of knowledge have to be bought at the cost of the consolations of ignorance."

The privileges of knowledge have to be bought at the cost of the consolations of ignorance.



John Fowles Quotes: "Which are you drinking? The water or the wave?"

Which are you drinking? The water or the wave?



John Fowles Quotes: "The practise of an art is essential to the whole man, not because of what art is but because of what art does to the artist."

The practise of an art is essential to the whole man, not because of what art is but because of what art does to the artist.



John Fowles Quotes: "Man is about to be deprived of a great pole - work routine. The nightmare of capitalist society is unemployment; the nightmare of cybernetic society will be employment."

Man is about to be deprived of a great pole - work routine. The nightmare of capitalist society is unemployment; the nightmare of cybernetic society will be employment.



John Fowles Quotes: "People who teach you cram old ideas, old views, old ways, into you. Like covering plants with layer after layer of old earth; it's no wonder the poor things so rarely come up fresh and green."

People who teach you cram old ideas, old views, old ways, into you. Like covering plants with layer after layer of old earth; it's no wonder the poor things so rarely come up fresh and green.



John Fowles Quotes: "I knew I would always want to go on living with myself, however hollow I became, however diseased."

I knew I would always want to go on living with myself, however hollow I became, however diseased.



John Fowles Quotes: "How can one build a better self unless on the ruins of the old?"

How can one build a better self unless on the ruins of the old?



John Fowles Quotes: "One degrades oneself sometimes in the effort not to be lonely."

One degrades oneself sometimes in the effort not to be lonely.



John Fowles Quotes: "They're beautiful. But sad.' Everything's sad if you make it so, I said."

They're beautiful. But sad.' Everything's sad if you make it so, I said.



John Fowles Quotes: "Stained glass, engraved glass, frosted glass; give me plain glass."

Stained glass, engraved glass, frosted glass; give me plain glass.



John Fowles Quotes: "It is not only species of animal that die out, but whole species of feeling. And if you are wise you will never pity the past for what it did not know, but pity yourself for what it did."

It is not only species of animal that die out, but whole species of feeling. And if you are wise you will never pity the past for what it did not know, but pity yourself for what it did.



John Fowles Quotes: "Being an atheist is a matter not of moral choice, but of human obligation."

Being an atheist is a matter not of moral choice, but of human obligation.



John Fowles Quotes: "Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want."

Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.



John Fowles Quotes: "Between skin and skin, there is only light."

Between skin and skin, there is only light.



John Fowles Quotes: "Ask me to marry you." "Will you marry me?" "No."

Ask me to marry you." "Will you marry me?" "No.



John Fowles Quotes: "It was too exactly as imagined to be true. But I felt as gladly and expectantly disorientated, as happily and alertly alone, as Alice in Wonderland."

It was too exactly as imagined to be true. But I felt as gladly and expectantly disorientated, as happily and alertly alone, as Alice in Wonderland.



John Fowles Quotes: "I knew words were like chains, they held me back . . . the act of description taints the description."

I knew words were like chains, they held me back . . . the act of description taints the description.



John Fowles Quotes: "We can sometimes recognize the looks of a century ago on a modern face; but never those of a century to come."

We can sometimes recognize the looks of a century ago on a modern face; but never those of a century to come.



John Fowles Quotes: "If you want to be true to life, start lying about it"

If you want to be true to life, start lying about it



John Fowles Quotes: "He knew the world and its absurdities as only an intelligent Irishman can; which is to say that where his knowledge or memory failed him, his imagination was always ready to fill the gap."

He knew the world and its absurdities as only an intelligent Irishman can; which is to say that where his knowledge or memory failed him, his imagination was always ready to fill the gap.



John Fowles Quotes: "No amount of reading and intelligent deduction could supplant the direct experience."

No amount of reading and intelligent deduction could supplant the direct experience.



John Fowles Quotes: "The newspapers are full of what we would like to happen to us and what we hope will never happen to us."

The newspapers are full of what we would like to happen to us and what we hope will never happen to us.



John Fowles Quotes: "Only fools think our attitude to our fellow men is a thing distinct from our attitude to 'lesser' life on this planet."

Only fools think our attitude to our fellow men is a thing distinct from our attitude to 'lesser' life on this planet.



John Fowles Quotes: "Thomas Beecham was a pompous little band-master who stood against everything creative in the art of his time."

Thomas Beecham was a pompous little band-master who stood against everything creative in the art of his time.



John Fowles Quotes: "Edith Sitwell's interest in art was largely confined to portraits of herself."

Edith Sitwell's interest in art was largely confined to portraits of herself.



John Fowles Quotes: "Evolution did not intend trees to grow singly. Far more than ourselves they are social creatures, and no more natural as isolated specimens than man is as a marooned sailor or hermit."

Evolution did not intend trees to grow singly. Far more than ourselves they are social creatures, and no more natural as isolated specimens than man is as a marooned sailor or hermit.