John Fowles Quotes
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John Fowles Famous Quotes & Sayings
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![John Fowles quotes: To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape. John Fowles quotes: To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-fowles-quotes-885088.jpg)
![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. 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-fowles-quotes-2027780.jpg)
![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: Death is not in the nature of things; it is the nature of things. But what dies is the form. The matter is immortal.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-fowles-quotes-1251449.jpg)
![John Fowles quotes: Victims?" "Whatever you call people who are made to suffer without being given the choice.""That sounds like an excellent definition of man. John Fowles quotes: Victims?" "Whatever you call people who are made to suffer without being given the choice.""That sounds like an excellent definition of man.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-fowles-quotes-1570415.jpg)
"Whatever you call people who are made to suffer without being given the choice."
"That sounds like an excellent definition of man.
![John Fowles quotes: You accept that you are English. You don't pretend that you'd rather be French or Italian or something else. John Fowles quotes: You accept that you are English. You don't pretend that you'd rather be French or Italian or something else.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-fowles-quotes-1520657.jpg)
![John Fowles quotes: It makes me sick,the blindness, deadness, out-of-dateness, stodginess and, yes, sheer jealous malice of the great bulk of England. John Fowles quotes: It makes me sick,the blindness, deadness, out-of-dateness, stodginess and, yes, sheer jealous malice of the great bulk of England.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-fowles-quotes-831902.jpg)
![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. 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-fowles-quotes-986177.jpg)
![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. 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-fowles-quotes-1084650.jpg)
![John Fowles quotes: The word is the most imprecise of signs. Only a science-obsessed age could fail to comprehend that this is its great virtue, not its defect. John Fowles quotes: The word is the most imprecise of signs. Only a science-obsessed age could fail to comprehend that this is its great virtue, not its defect.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-fowles-quotes-900884.jpg)
![John Fowles quotes: In my opinion a lot of people who may seem happy now would do what I did or similar things if they had the money and the time. I John Fowles quotes: In my opinion a lot of people who may seem happy now would do what I did or similar things if they had the money and the time. I](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-fowles-quotes-1416571.jpg)
![John Fowles quotes: The evolution of human mentality has put us all in vitro now, behind the glass wall of our own ingenuity. John Fowles quotes: The evolution of human mentality has put us all in vitro now, behind the glass wall of our own ingenuity.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-fowles-quotes-428963.jpg)
![John Fowles quotes: She smiled at him as they waited for their dessert, her chin poised on her clasped hands.'You're being very silent.''That's how men cry. John Fowles quotes: She smiled at him as they waited for their dessert, her chin poised on her clasped hands.'You're being very silent.''That's how men cry.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-fowles-quotes-1101251.jpg)
'You're being very silent.'
'That's how men cry.
![John Fowles quotes: It was curious how quiet that last evening was; as if I had already left, and we were just two ghosts talking to each other. John Fowles quotes: It was curious how quiet that last evening was; as if I had already left, and we were just two ghosts talking to each other.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-fowles-quotes-1995874.jpg)
![John Fowles quotes: Thomas Beecham was a pompous little band-master who stood against everything creative in the art of his time. John Fowles quotes: Thomas Beecham was a pompous little band-master who stood against everything creative in the art of his time.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-fowles-quotes-1390721.jpg)
![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: Stop thinking about class, she'd say. Like a rich man telling a poor man to stop thinking about money.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-fowles-quotes-1842653.jpg)
![John Fowles quotes: That's the trouble with provincial life. Everyone knows everyone and there is no mystery. No romance. John Fowles quotes: That's the trouble with provincial life. Everyone knows everyone and there is no mystery. No romance.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-fowles-quotes-652738.jpg)
![John Fowles quotes: I would have gone to bed with him that night. If he had asked. If he had come and kissed me. Not for his sake, but for being alive's. John Fowles quotes: I would have gone to bed with him that night. If he had asked. If he had come and kissed me. Not for his sake, but for being alive's.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-fowles-quotes-2194163.jpg)
![John Fowles quotes: What you love is your own love. It's not love, it's selfishness. It's not me you think of, but what you feel about me. John Fowles quotes: What you love is your own love. It's not love, it's selfishness. It's not me you think of, but what you feel about me.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-fowles-quotes-1614879.jpg)
![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. 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-fowles-quotes-1122868.jpg)
![John Fowles quotes: He said, men are vile. I said, the vilest thing about them is that they can say that with a smile on their faces. John Fowles quotes: He said, men are vile. I said, the vilest thing about them is that they can say that with a smile on their faces.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-fowles-quotes-186244.jpg)
![John Fowles quotes: If Rome, a city of the vulgar living, had been depressing after Greece, London, a city of the drab dead, was fifty times worse. John Fowles quotes: If Rome, a city of the vulgar living, had been depressing after Greece, London, a city of the drab dead, was fifty times worse.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-fowles-quotes-250010.jpg)
![John Fowles quotes: Everything free and decent in life is being locked away in filthy little cellars by beastly people who don't care. John Fowles quotes: Everything free and decent in life is being locked away in filthy little cellars by beastly people who don't care.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-fowles-quotes-1776384.jpg)
![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 am talking about the general psychological health of the species, man. He needs the existence of mysteries. Not their solution.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-fowles-quotes-1849865.jpg)
of the species, man. He needs the existence of
mysteries. Not their solution.
![John Fowles quotes: They knew they were like two grains of yeast in a sea of lethargic dough - two grains of salt in a vast tureen of insipid broth. John Fowles quotes: They knew they were like two grains of yeast in a sea of lethargic dough - two grains of salt in a vast tureen of insipid broth.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-fowles-quotes-1851662.jpg)
![John Fowles quotes: The last I saw of him was of a dark blue back marching towards Shaftesbury Avenue; eternally the victor in a war where the losers win. John Fowles quotes: The last I saw of him was of a dark blue back marching towards Shaftesbury Avenue; eternally the victor in a war where the losers win.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-fowles-quotes-1890219.jpg)
![John Fowles quotes: All would be well when she was truly his; in his bed and in his bank ... and of course in his heart, too. John Fowles quotes: All would be well when she was truly his; in his bed and in his bank ... and of course in his heart, too.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-fowles-quotes-1927189.jpg)
![John Fowles quotes: Labor is a man crowning glory.""Not this man's.""I quote Marx"I raised my hands. The pickaxe handle had been rough."I quote blisters. John Fowles quotes: Labor is a man crowning glory.""Not this man's.""I quote Marx"I raised my hands. The pickaxe handle had been rough."I quote blisters.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-fowles-quotes-1935056.jpg)
"Not this man's."
"I quote Marx"
I raised my hands. The pickaxe handle had been rough.
"I quote blisters.
![John Fowles quotes: Sex is just an activity, like anything else. It's not dirty, it's just two people playing with each other's bodies. Like dancing. Like a game. John Fowles quotes: Sex is just an activity, like anything else. It's not dirty, it's just two people playing with each other's bodies. Like dancing. Like a game.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-fowles-quotes-182864.jpg)
![John Fowles quotes: But he was absolutely alone. No one ever wrote to him. Visited him. Totally alone. And I believe the happiest man I have ever met. John Fowles quotes: But he was absolutely alone. No one ever wrote to him. Visited him. Totally alone. And I believe the happiest man I have ever met.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-fowles-quotes-2037678.jpg)
![John Fowles quotes: Ever read this?""Let's cut corners. To hell with literature. You're clever and I'm beautiful. Now let's talk about who we really are. John Fowles quotes: Ever read this?""Let's cut corners. To hell with literature. You're clever and I'm beautiful. Now let's talk about who we really are.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-fowles-quotes-2125641.jpg)
"Let's cut corners. To hell with literature. You're clever and I'm beautiful. Now let's talk about who we really are.
![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. 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-fowles-quotes-2150737.jpg)
![John Fowles quotes: The silence was terrible then, as tense as a bridge about to break, a tower to fall; unedurable in its emotion, its truth bursting to be spoken. John Fowles quotes: The silence was terrible then, as tense as a bridge about to break, a tower to fall; unedurable in its emotion, its truth bursting to be spoken.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-fowles-quotes-2156049.jpg)
![John Fowles quotes: It is me. I am his madness. For years he's been looking for something to put his madness into. And he found me. John Fowles quotes: It is me. I am his madness. For years he's been looking for something to put his madness into. And he found me.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-fowles-quotes-61962.jpg)
![John Fowles quotes: That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects. John Fowles quotes: That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-fowles-quotes-939957.jpg)
![John Fowles quotes: ...and his eyes had that splendid innocence, that opaque blue candour of the satanically fallen. ~ The French Lieutenant's Woman John Fowles quotes: ...and his eyes had that splendid innocence, that opaque blue candour of the satanically fallen. ~ The French Lieutenant's Woman](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-fowles-quotes-25599.jpg)
![John Fowles quotes: Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want. John Fowles quotes: Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-fowles-quotes-711793.jpg)
![John Fowles quotes: We talked for hours. He talked and I listened. It was like wind and sunlight. It blew all the cobwebs away. John Fowles quotes: We talked for hours. He talked and I listened. It was like wind and sunlight. It blew all the cobwebs away.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-fowles-quotes-1477559.jpg)
It was like wind and sunlight. It blew all the cobwebs away.
![John Fowles quotes: As if I'd lit a fire in the darkness to try and warm us. And all I'd done was to see his real face by it. John Fowles quotes: As if I'd lit a fire in the darkness to try and warm us. And all I'd done was to see his real face by it.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/john-fowles-quotes-434457.jpg)