John Fowles Quotes about Reality

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I read and I read; and I was like a medieval king, I had fallen in love with the picture long before I saw the reality.

I read and I read; and I was like a medieval king, I had fallen in love with the picture long before I saw the reality.

John Fowles

Kings, Reality, Long

John Fowles (1965). “The Magus”

Whatever sympathy I feel towards religions, whatever admiration for some of their adherents, whatever historical or biological necessity I see in them, whatever metaphorical truth, I cannot accept them as credible explanations of reality; and they are incredible to me in proportion to the degree that they require my belief in positive human attributes and intervenient powers in their divinities.

John Fowles

Sympathy, Reality, Historical

John Fowles (1970). “The Aristos”, Signet Book

The absurdly neurotic role you and the rest of your kind have always attributed to me Erato, the Goddess Muse of Erotic Poetry bears no relation at all to reality. As a matter of fact, I was trained as a clinical psychologist. Who simply happens to have specialized in the mental illness that you, in your ignorance, call literature.

John Fowles

Writing, Ignorance, Reality

John Fowles Quotes about Reality

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