John Fowles Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• I suppose I'd had, by the standards of that pre-permissive time, a good deal of sex for my age. Girls, or a certain kind of girl, liked me; I had a car-not so common among undergraduates in those days-and I had some money. I wasn't ugly; and even more important, I had my loneliness, which, as every cad knows, is a deadly weapon with women. My 'technique' was to make a show of unpredictability, cynicism, and indifference. Then, like a conjurer with his white rabbit, I produced the solitary heart.

  John Fowles

  Girl, Sex, Loneliness

  John Fowles (1965). “The Magus”

• The noblest relationship is marriage, that is, love. Its nobility resides in its altruism, the desire to serve another beyond all the pleasures of the relationship; and in its refusal ever to regard the other as a thing, an object, a utilizability. Sex is an exchange of pleasures, of needs; love is a giving without return. It is this giving without return, this helping without reward, this surplus of pure good, that identifies the uniqueness of man as well as the true nature of the true marriage. This is the quintessence the great alchemy of sex is for.

  John Fowles

  Love, Sex, Men

• The word is the most imprecise of signs. Only a science-obsessed age could fail to comprehend that this is its great virtue, not its defect.

  John Fowles

  Age, Failing, Virtue

  John Fowles (1977). “Daniel Martin”, Jonathan Cape

• Each age, each guilty age, builds high walls around its Versailles; and personally I hate those walls most when they are made by literature and art.

  John Fowles

  Art, Wall, Hate

  JOHN FOWLES (1969). “THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN”

• Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.

  John Fowles

  Self, Age, Adulthood

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