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It's no good. I've been tryin...

It's no good. I've been trying to sleep for the last half-hour, and I can't. Writing here is a sort of drug. It's the only thing I look forward to. This afternoon I read what I wrote... And it seemed vivid. I know it seems vivid because my imagination fills in all the bits another person wouldn't understand. I mean, it's vanity. But it seems a sort of magic... And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did

John Fowles 176 quotes

Though I like the various for...

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.

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Greece is like a mirror. It m...

Greece is like a mirror. It makes you suffer. Then you learn.' To live alone?' To live. With what you are.

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I knew words were like chains...

I knew words were like chains, they held me back . . . the act of description taints the description.

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The newspapers are full of wh...

The newspapers are full of what we would like to happen to us and what we hope will never happen to us.

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People who teach you cram old...

People who teach you cram old ideas, old views, old ways, into you. Like covering plants with layer after layer of old earth; it's no wonder the poor things so rarely come up fresh and green.

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I suppose I'd had, by the sta...

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.

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It's like the day you realize ...

It's like the day you realize dolls are dolls. I pick up my old self and I see it's silly. A toy I've played with too often. It's a little sad, like an old golliwog at the bottom of the cupboard. Innocent and used-up and proud and silly.

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Love is the mystery between tw...

Love is the mystery between two people, not the identity.

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Medieval theologians used to d...

Medieval theologians used to dispute how the angels in the heaven spent their time, when not balancing on needle points and singing anthems to the Lord. I know. They slump glued to their clouds, glasses at the ready, as the Archangel Micheal (that well-known slasher) and stonewalling St Peter open against the Devils XI. It could not be Heaven, otherwise.

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The best wines take the longes...

The best wines take the longest to mature.

John Fowles 176 quotes

It's no good. I've been trying...

It's no good. I've been trying to sleep for the last half-hour, and I can't. Writing here is a sort of drug. It's the only thing I look forward to. This afternoon I read what I wrote... And it seemed vivid. I know it seems vivid because my imagination fills in all the bits another person wouldn't understand. I mean, it's vanity. But it seems a sort of magic... And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did

John Fowles 176 quotes

There are two kinds of hangove...

There are two kinds of hangover: in one you feel ill and incapable, in the other you feel ill and lucid.

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How can one build a better sel...

How can one build a better self unless on the ruins of the old?

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Each age, each guilty age, bui...

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.

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There are some men who are con...

There are some men who are consoled by the idea that there are women less attractive than their wives; and others who are haunted by the knowledge that there are more attractive.

John Fowles 176 quotes

I suppose I'd had, by the stan...

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 176 quotes

Liking other people is an illu...

Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society.

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I am one in a row of specimens...

I am one in a row of specimens. It's when I try to flutter out of line that he hates me. I'm meant to be dead, pinned, always the same, always beautiful. He knows that part of my beauty is being alive. but it's the dead me he wants. He wants me living-but-dead.

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There is only one good definit...

There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.

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