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John Fowles Quotes - Page 7

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Think. In a minute from now you could be saying, I risked death. I threw for life, and I won life. It is a very wonderful feeling. To have survived.

Think. In a minute from now you could be saying, I risked death. I threw for life, and I won life. It is a very wonderful feeling. To have survived.

John Fowles
Thinking, Feelings, Wonderful
John Fowles (1968). “The Magus”, Pan

If you want to be true to life, start lying about it

John Fowles
Lying, True Life, Want

Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.

John Fowles
Pairs, Lone Wolf, Myth

The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time; our sense of that, not a disinterested love of science, and certainly not wisdom, is why we devote such a huge proportion of the ingenuity and income of our societies to finding faster ways of doing things - as if the final aim of mankind was to grow closer not to a perfect humanity, but to a perfect lightning-flash.

John Fowles
Time, Perfect, Humanity
JOHN FOWLES (1969). “THE FRENCH LIEUTENTANT'S WOMAN”

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
Wonderland, Being True, Felt
John Fowles (1968). “The Magus”, Pan

The more abhorrent a news item the more comforting it was to be the recipient, since the fact that it had happened elsewhere proved that it had not happened here, was not happening here, and would therefore never happen here.

John Fowles
Comforting, Abhorrent, News
1974 The Ebony Tower,'Poor Koko'.

Only fools think our attitude to our fellow men is a thing distinct from our attitude to 'lesser' life on this planet.

John Fowles
Life, Attitude, Equality

He knew the world and its absurdities as only an intelligent Irishman can; which is to say that where his knowledge or memory failed him, his imagination was always ready to fill the gap.

John Fowles
Memories, Intelligent, Imagination
JOHN FOWLES “THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN”

I am one in a row of specimens. It's when I try to flutter out of line that he hates me. I'm meant to be dead, pinned, always the same, always beautiful. He knows that part of my beauty is being alive. but it's the dead me he wants. He wants me living-but-dead.

John Fowles
Beautiful, Hate, Trying
John Fowles (2010). “The Collector”, p.203, Random House

Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these two great Anglo-Saxon ball games for sophisticated elegance and symbolism. 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. With football we are back to the monotonous clashing armor of the brontosaurus.

John Fowles
Beautiful, Football, Baseball

The diary will really try and tell people who you are and what you were. The alternative is writing nothing, or creating a totally lifeless, as it is leafless, garden.

John Fowles
Writing, Garden, Creating
2003 The Journals: Volume 1.

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