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To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.
— John Fowles
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
I am infinitely strange to myself.
— John Fowles
In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.
— John Fowles
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— John Fowles
Ask me to marry you.""Will you marry me?"
"No. — John Fowles
An aphorism is a generalization, therefore not modern.
— John Fowles
We can sometimes recognize the looks of a century ago on a modern face; but never those of a century to come.
— John Fowles
I don't think the English like me. I sold a colossal best seller in America, and they never really forgave me.
— John Fowles
I knew I would always want to go on living with myself, however hollow I became, however diseased.
— John Fowles
Between skin and skin, there is only light.
— John Fowles
You come to the United States not knowing what to expect. Then all your worst prejudices are confirmed.
— John Fowles
The evolution of human mentality has put us all in vitro now, behind the glass wall of our own ingenuity.
— John Fowles
Death is the room that is always empty.
— John Fowles
She had only a candle's light to see by, but candlelight never did badly by any woman.
— John Fowles
It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live.
— John Fowles
I hate beyond hate.
— John Fowles
An answer is always a form of death.
— John Fowles
Moments one knows only death will obliterate.
— John Fowles
I knew words were like chains, they held me back ... the act of description taints the description.
— John Fowles
That's the trouble with provincial life. Everyone knows everyone and there is no mystery. No romance.
— John Fowles
I needed a new mystery.
— John Fowles
I mean I never feel I feel what I ought to feel.
— John Fowles
That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects.
— John Fowles
She was a mirror that did not lie; whose interest in me was real; whose love was real.
— John Fowles
Men go to the ballpark with an assumed knowledge and interest, whereas women need to constantly demonstrate how much they know and care.
— Stacey May Fowles
The height the dupe has fallen is measured by his anger.
— John Fowles
Now I understand why you grow so many flowers."She shifted her head, not understanding.
I said, "To cover the stink of sulphur. — John Fowles
You may wonder how I had not seen it before. I believe I had. But to see something is not the same as to acknowledge it.
— John Fowles
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
He had the charm of all people who believe implicitly in themselves, that of integration.
— John Fowles
...there are times when silence is a poem.
— John Fowles
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
Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society.
— John Fowles
Write, if you must, because you feel like writing, never because you feel you ought to write.
— John Fowles
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
Duty is but a pot. It holds whatever is put in it, from the greatest evil to the greatest good.
— John Fowles
Art is a statement of one in the face of all; not a statement by one for the use of all.
— John Fowles
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
They looked down on her; and she looked up through them.
— John Fowles
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
The profoundest distances are never geographical.
— John Fowles
Nice girl, dear boy.""Oh ... " I shrugged. "You know."
"Most attractive."
"Cheaper than central heating."
"I'm sure. — John Fowles
I read and I read; and I was like a medieval king, I had fallen in love with the picture long before I saw the reality.
— John Fowles
There are many reasons why novelists write but they all have one thing in common a need to create an alternative world.
— John Fowles
Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.
— John Fowles
The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?
— John Fowles
Greece is like a mirror. It makes you suffer. Then you learn.'To live alone?'
To live. With what you are. — John Fowles
Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.
— John Fowles
