John Fowles Quotes - Page 7

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• 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

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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.

  John Fowles

  Thinking, Feelings, Wonderful

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

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• Evolution did not intend trees to grow singly. Far more than ourselves they are social creatures, and no more natural as isolated specimens than man is as a marooned sailor or hermit.

  John Fowles

  Men, Tree, Sailor

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

  John Fowles

  Lying, True Life, Want

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• 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

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• We can sometimes recognize the looks of a century ago on a modern face; but never those of a century to come.

  John Fowles

  Looks, Faces, Sometimes

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

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• 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'.

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• 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

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• 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

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• He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal.

  John Fowles

  Stupid, Men, Ironic

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

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• 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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