John Fowles Quotes About Cynicism

Quotes about: Cynicism

• 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”

• I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope - an impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.

  John Fowles

  Effort, Green, Cynicism

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

• ...all cynicism masks a failure to cope.

  John Fowles

  Cynicism, Mask

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

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