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All novelists should live in ...

All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one.

John Fowles 176 quotes

The human race is unimportant...

The human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed.' 'I suppose one could say that Hitler didn't betray his self.' He turned. 'You are right. He did not. But millions of Germans did betray their selves. That was the tragedy.'

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It is only when our character...

It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live.

John Fowles 176 quotes

But I think the most harmful ...

But I think the most harmful change brought about by Victorian science in our attitude to nature lies in the demand that our relation with it must be purposive, industrious, always seeking greater knowledge.

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I just think of things as bea...

I just think of things as beautiful or not. Can't you understand? I don't think of good or bad. Just of beautiful or ugly. I think a lot of nice things are ugly and a lot of nasty things are beautiful.

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Another reason I think the no...

Another reason I think the novel will survive is that the reader has to work in a novel. In a film, you are presented with someone else's imagination exactly bodied out. The marvelous thing about a novel is that every reader will imagine even the very simplest sentence slightly differently.

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Always we try to put the wild...

Always we try to put the wild in a cage.

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We all write poems; it is sim...

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

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We chase the reward, we get t...

We chase the reward, we get the reward and then we discover that the true reward is always the next reward. Buying pleasure is a false end.

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People knew less of each othe...

People knew less of each other, perhaps, but they felt more free of each other, and so were more individual. The entire world was not for them only a push or a switch away. Strangers were strange, and sometimes with an exciting, beautiful strangeness. It may be better for humanity that we should communicate more and more.

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Most marriages recognize this...

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

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There comes a time in each li...

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not anymore what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

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Duty largely consists of pret...

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

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The most important questions ...

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

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In essence the Renaissance wa...

In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.

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I don't think the English lik...

I don't think the English like me. I sold a colossal best seller in America, and they never really forgave me.

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That is the great distinction...

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

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Men love war because it allow...

Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.

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I think we are just insects, ...

I think we are just insects, we live a bit and then die and that’s the lot. There’s no mercy in things. There’s not even a Great Beyond. There’s nothing.

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Content is a word unknown to ...

Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.

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