John Fowles – Quotes Lover

Whatever sympathy I feel towards religions, whatever admiration for some of their adherents, whatever historical...

#Religion

Whatever sympathy I feel towards religions, whatever admiration for some of their adherents, whatever historical...

An answer is always a form of death.

#Death

An answer is always a form of death.

Time is not a road - it is a room

#Time

Time is not a road - it is a room

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

#John Fowles

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

I don't think the English like me. I sold a colossal best seller in America,...

#John Fowles

I don't think the English like me. I sold a colossal best seller in America,...

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

#John Fowles

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

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In...

#John Fowles

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In...

Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one...

#John Fowles

Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one...

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

#John Fowles

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

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

#John Fowles

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

That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships...

#John Fowles

That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships...

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

#John Fowles

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

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

#John Fowles

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

Whatever sympathy I feel towards religions, whatever admiration for some of their adherents, whatever historical...

#Religion

Whatever sympathy I feel towards religions, whatever admiration for some of their adherents, whatever historical...

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common...

#John Fowles

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common...

An answer is always a form of death.

#Death And Dying, #Solution

An answer is always a form of death.

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

#John Fowles

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

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

#Poetry

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