Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old John Fowles quotes, John Fowles sayings, and John Fowles proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.John Fowles
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There are two kinds of hangover: in one you feel ill and incapable, in the other you feel ill and lucid.John Fowles
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Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.John Fowles
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Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base in both senses greed.John Fowles
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It must essentially remain a novel of adolescence written by a retarded adolescent.John Fowles
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The newspapers are full of what we would like to happen to us and what we hope will never happen to us.John Fowles
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Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.John Fowles
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Being an atheist is a matter not of moral choice, but of human obligation.John Fowles
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Follow the accident, fear the fixed plan--that is the rule.John Fowles
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To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.John Fowles
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In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.John Fowles
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That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects.John Fowles
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Our stereotyping societies force us to feel more alone. They stamp masks on us and isolate out real selves. We all live in two worlds: the old comfortable man-centred world of absolutes and the harsh real world of relatives. The latter, the relativity reality, terrifies us; and isolates and dwarfs us all.John Fowles
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I hate the uneducated and the ignorant. I hate the pompous and the phoney. I hate the jealous and the resentful. I hate the crabbed and mean and the petty. I hate all ordinary dull little people who aren't ashamed of being dull and little.John Fowles
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There are only two races on this planet, the intelligent and the stupid.John Fowles
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Meadows carpeted with buttercups, like slabs of gold in the somber forest.John Fowles
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In spite of her superficial independence, her fundamental need was to cling.
All her life was an attempt to disprove it; and so proved it. She was like a sea anemone -- had only to be touched once to adhere to what touched her.John Fowles
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A lack of sexuality so total that her smart clothes and too heavy make-up made her pathetic; like an unsuccessful geisha.John Fowles