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John Fowles Quotes

John Fowles quotes

English Novelist, Writer March 31, 1926 – November 5, 2005

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John Fowles quote: "Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a..."
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
John Fowles quote: "If anything might hurt her, silence would; and I wanted to..."
If anything might hurt her, silence would; and I wanted to hurt her. John Fowles
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
I had always believed, and not only out of cynicism, that a man and a woman could tell in the first ten minutes whether they wanted to go to bed together; and that the time that passed after those first ten minutes represented a tax, which might be worth paying if the article promised to be really enjoyable, but which nine times out of ten became rapidly excessive. John Fowles
John Fowles quote: "The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We..."
The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night? John Fowles
John Fowles quote: "Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf..."
Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth. John Fowles
John Fowles quote: "The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time."
The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time. John Fowles
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
I could offer no consolation and I do not think he wanted any. There are situations in which consolation only threatens the equilibrium that time has instituted. John Fowles
When she went out she used to wear a lot of eye shadow, which married with the sulky way she sometimes held her mouth to give her a characteristic bruised look; a look that subtly made one want to bruise her more. John Fowles
Time in itself, absolutely, does not exist; it is always relative to some observer or some object. Without a clock I say 'I do not know the time' . Without matter time itself is unknowable. Time is a function of matter; and matter therefore is the clock that makes infinity real. John Fowles
...and his eyes had that splendid innocence, that opaque blue candour of the satanically fallen. ~ The French Lieutenant’s Woman John Fowles
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
John Fowles quote: "Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys..."
Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want. John Fowles
Man is an everlack, an infinite withoutness, afloat on an apparently endless ocean of apparently endless indifference to individual things. Obscurely he sees catastrophes happening to other rafts, rafts that are too distant for him to determine whether they have other humans aboard, but too numerous and too identical for him to presume that they have not. John Fowles

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