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“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 book The Collector

Source: The Collector

“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 book The French Lieutenant's Woman

Source: The French Lieutenant's Woman

“We are all in flight from the real reality. That is the basic definition of Homo Sapiens.”

John Fowles book The French Lieutenant's Woman

Source: The French Lieutenant's Woman

“There is no plan. All is hazard. And the only thing that will preserve us is ourselves.”

John Fowles book The Magus

Source: The Magus

“It is me. I am his madness. For years he's been looking for something to put his madness into. And he found me.”

John Fowles book The Collector

Source: The Collector

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

John Fowles

“I will tell you what war is. War is a psychosis caused by an inability to see relationships. Our relationship with our fellowmen. Our relationship with our economic and historical situation. And above all our relationship to nothingness, to death.”

John Fowles book The Magus

Source: The Magus

“I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.”

John Fowles book The Collector

Source: The Collector

“I mean I never feel I feel what I ought to feel.”

John Fowles book The Collector

Source: The Collector

“The world began in hazard and will end in it.”

John Fowles book The Magus

Source: The Magus

“The profoundest distances are never geographical.”

John Fowles

“Do you know that every great thing in the history of art and every beautiful thing in life is actually what you call nasty or has been caused by feelings that you would call nasty? By passion, by love, by hatred, by truth. Do you know that?”

John Fowles book The Collector

Source: The Collector

“There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be. You are too young to know this. You are still becoming. Not being.”

John Fowles book The Magus

Source: The Magus

“The best wines take the longest to mature.”

John Fowles book The French Lieutenant's Woman

Source: The French Lieutenant's Woman

“… all cynicism masks a failure to cope.”

John Fowles book The Magus

Source: The Magus

“The sky is absolutely empty. Beautifully pure and empty.

As if the architects and builders would live in all the houses they built! Or could live in them all. It's obvious, it stares you in the fact. Therebe a God and heknow anything about us.”

John Fowles book The Collector

Source: The Collector

“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.”

John Fowles