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John Fowles Quotes

Stained glass, engraved glass, frosted glass; give me plain glass Picture Quote #1

I knew words were like chains, they held me back... the act of description taints the description Picture Quote #1

I don’t think the English like me. I sold a colossal best seller in America, and they never really forgave me Picture Quote #1

Greece is like a mirror. It makes you suffer. Then you learn.’ To live alone?’ To live. With what you are Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

They’re beautiful. But sad.’ Everything’s sad if you make it so, I said Picture Quote #1

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I am one in a row of specimens. It’s when I try to flutter out of line that he hates me. I’m meant to be dead, pinned, always the same, always beautiful. He knows that part of my beauty is being alive. but it’s the dead me he wants. He wants me living-but-dead Picture Quote #1

She’s always looking for poetry and passion and sensitivity, the whole Romantic kitchen. I live on a rather simpler diet.’ ‘Prose and pudding?’’I don’t expect attractive men necessarily to have attractive souls Picture Quote #1

Our knowledge of what the richer than ourselves possess, and the poor do not, has never been more widespread. Therefore, envy, which is wanting what others have, and jealousy, which is not wanting others to have what one has, have never been more widespread Picture Quote #1

My hatred of crowds, the obviousness of crowds, of anything en masse. Is this why I like little-known books? A general desire to escape the main world Picture Quote #1

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 so remote, so cold, so mathematical. I see that we have to live as if there is no God. Prayer and worship and singing hymns-all silly and useless Picture Quote #1

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be Picture Quote #1

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Each age, each guilty age, builds high walls around its Versailles; and personally I hate those walls most when they are made by literature and art Picture Quote #1

You must make, always. You must act, if you believe something. Talking about acting is like boasting about pictures you’re going to paint. The most terrible bad form Picture Quote #1

We all want things we can’t have. Being a decent human being is accepting that Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Stop thinking about class, she’d say. Like a rich man telling a poor man to stop thinking about money Picture Quote #1

Death is not in the nature of things; it is the nature of things. But what dies is the form. The matter is immortal Picture Quote #1

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I’m only happy when I forget to exist. When just my eyes or my ears or my skin exist Picture Quote #1

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words Picture Quote #1

He liked to be popular and in place of charm had to dispense alcohol Picture Quote #1

Hypotheses pinned me down, as Gulliver was pinned by the countless threads of the Lilliputians Picture Quote #1

Whole sight; or all the rest is desolation Picture Quote #1

All pasts are like poems; one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them Picture Quote #1

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Being an atheist is a matter not of moral choice, but of human obligation Picture Quote #1

Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be Picture Quote #1

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself Picture Quote #1

I am talking about the general psychological health of the species, man. He needs the existence of mysteries. Not their solution Picture Quote #1

I will tell you what war is. War is a psychosis caused by an inability to see relationships. Our relationship with our fellowmen. Our relationship with our economic and historical situation. And above all our relationship to nothingness, to death Picture Quote #1

And I just can’t live in this present. I would go mad if I did Picture Quote #1

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Stained glass, engraved glass, frosted glass; give me plain glass (John Fowles Quotes) I knew words were like chains, they held me back... the act of description taints the description (John Fowles Quotes) I don’t think the English like me. I sold a colossal best seller in America, and they never really forgave me (John Fowles Quotes) Greece is like a mirror. It makes you suffer. Then you learn.’ To live alone?’ To live. With what you are (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 (John Fowles Quotes) They’re beautiful. But sad.’ Everything’s sad if you make it so, I said (John Fowles Quotes) I am one in a row of specimens. It’s when I try to flutter out of line that he hates me. I’m meant to be dead, pinned, always the same, always beautiful. He knows that part of my beauty is being alive. but it’s the dead me he wants. He wants me living-but-dead (John Fowles Quotes) She’s always looking for poetry and passion and sensitivity, the whole Romantic kitchen. I live on a rather simpler diet.’ ‘Prose and pudding?’’I don’t expect attractive men necessarily to have attractive souls (John Fowles Quotes) Our knowledge of what the richer than ourselves possess, and the poor do not, has never been more widespread. Therefore, envy, which is wanting what others have, and jealousy, which is not wanting others to have what one has, have never been more widespread (John Fowles Quotes) My hatred of crowds, the obviousness of crowds, of anything en masse. Is this why I like little-known books? A general desire to escape the main world (John Fowles Quotes) 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 so remote, so cold, so mathematical. I see that we have to live as if there is no God. Prayer and worship and singing hymns-all silly and useless (John Fowles Quotes) There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be (John Fowles Quotes) Each age, each guilty age, builds high walls around its Versailles; and personally I hate those walls most when they are made by literature and art. (John Fowles Quotes) You must make, always. You must act, if you believe something. Talking about acting is like boasting about pictures you’re going to paint. The most terrible bad form. (John Fowles Quotes) We all want things we can’t have. Being a decent human being is accepting that. (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. (John Fowles Quotes) Stop thinking about class, she’d say. Like a rich man telling a poor man to stop thinking about money. (John Fowles Quotes) Death is not in the nature of things; it is the nature of things. But what dies is the form. The matter is immortal. (John Fowles Quotes) I’m only happy when I forget to exist. When just my eyes or my ears or my skin exist. (John Fowles Quotes) We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words (John Fowles Quotes) He liked to be popular and in place of charm had to dispense alcohol (John Fowles Quotes) Hypotheses pinned me down, as Gulliver was pinned by the countless threads of the Lilliputians (John Fowles Quotes) Whole sight; or all the rest is desolation (John Fowles Quotes) All pasts are like poems; one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them (John Fowles Quotes) Being an atheist is a matter not of moral choice, but of human obligation (John Fowles Quotes) Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be (John Fowles Quotes) The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself (John Fowles Quotes) I am talking about the general psychological health of the species, man. He needs the existence of mysteries. Not their solution (John Fowles Quotes) I will tell you what war is. War is a psychosis caused by an inability to see relationships. Our relationship with our fellowmen. Our relationship with our economic and historical situation. And above all our relationship to nothingness, to death (John Fowles Quotes) And I just can’t live in this present. I would go mad if I did (John Fowles Quotes)

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