John Fowles Quotes

John Fowles (18)

Birth:	31st March, 1926
Death:	5th November, 2005
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Novelist, Teacher, Writer

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• Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.

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  Topics in Death

• To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.

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• We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

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• There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not anymore what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

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• There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common – a need to create an alternative world.

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• The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time.

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• The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

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• That is the great distinction between the s*xes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects.

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• Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.

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

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• Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.

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• In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization’s hardest winters.

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

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• Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

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• Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.

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• An answer is always a form of death.

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• In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

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• There are only two races on this planet – the intelligent and the stupid.

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