John Fowles Quotes

– Ум и глупость друг друга не исключают. Особенно у мужчины вашего возраста.

– Мне двадцать три. А тебе?– Двадцать пять.– Разве ты не чувствуешь, как в тебе что-то схватывается? И уже никогда не изменится? Я чувствую. До скончания века буду австралийской раззявой.

Your first reaction is the characteristic one of your contrasuggestible century: to disbelieve, to disprove. I see this very clearly underneath your politeness.

You have shared your secret. I think you will find it to be an unburdening in many other ways. You have very considerable natural advantages. You have nothing to fear from life. A day will come when t...

They looked down on her; and she looked up through them.

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.

The ordinary man is the curse of civilization.

She had only a candle's light to see by, but candlelight never did badly by any woman.

Sarah turned on her, and shook her head. You may keep them. And if it is possible with so small a sum of money, I suggest you purchase some instrument of torture. I am sure Mrs. Fairly will be pleased...

People who teach you cram old ideas, old views, old ways, into you. Like covering plants with layer after layer of old earth; it's no wonder the poor things so rarely come up fresh and green.

No religion is the only religion, no church the true church.

Maurice once said to me- when I had asked him a question rather like yours - he said, An answer is always a form of death There was something else in her face then. It was not implaceable; but in some...

If you feel something deeply, you’re not ashamed to show your feeling.

I did not pray for her, because prayer has no efficacy; I did not cry for her, or for myself, because only extroverts cry twice; but I sat in the silence of that night, that infinite hostility to man,...

But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it's no go if your personality isn't worth translating.

I knew that on that island one was driven back into the past. There was so much space, so much silence, so few meetings that one too easily saw out of the present, and then the past seemed ten times c...

Şi de aici mi-am dat seama că era dement şi deci nevinovat, căci toţi oamenii nebuni, până şi cei mai cruzi, sunt nevinovaţi. Reprezenta una din forţele întunecate pe care viaţa le poate crea dacă vre...

I just think of things as beautiful or not. Can't you understand? I don't think of good or bad. Just of beautiful or ugly. I think a lot of nice things are ugly and a lot of nasty things are beautiful...

I had just written a letter to Alison, but already she seemed far away, not in distance, not in time, but in some dimension for which there is no name. Reality, perhaps.

We lack trust in the present, this moment, this actual seeing, because our culture tells us to trust only the reported back, the publicly framed, the edited, the thing set in the clearly artistic or t...