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John Fowles
(English Novelist)

Nationality:: English
Quote count:: 23
Times favorited:: 25

John Robert Fowles was an English novelist and essayist.

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“That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects.”

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“The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.”

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“In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.”

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“There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.”

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“An answer is always a form of death.”

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“Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.”

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“We all write poems; it is simply that the poets are the ones who write in words”

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“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.”

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“So I felt this burning summer. In form I might
belong to humankind; in reality I seemed one of a
ravenous self-destroying horde of rats.
I am glad there is no God. If there were,
I cannot imagine that we rampant, myopic, and
insatiably self-centred creatures should
be allowed to survive a single day more”

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“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”

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