John Fowles
John Fowles
John Robert Fowleswas an English novelist of international stature, critically positioned between modernism and postmodernism. His work reflects the influence of Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, among others...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth31 March 1926
forget happens
Forgetting’s not something you do, it happens to you. Only it didn’t happen to me.
life philosophy important
The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.
time rooms
Time is not a road - it is a room.
sight desolation whole
Whole sight; or all the rest is desolation.
hate jealous mean
I hate the uneducated and the ignorant. I hate the pompous and the phoney. I hate the jealous and the resentful. I hate the crabbed and mean and the petty. I hate all ordinary dull little people who aren't ashamed of being dull and little.
accepting ought
Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.
misery century lack-of-time
The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time.
envy poor
Our knowledge of what the richer than ourselves possess, and the poor do not, has never been more widespread. Therefore, envy, which is wanting what others have, and jealousy, which is not wanting others to have what one has, have never been more widespread.
hangover two kind
There are two kinds of hangover: in one you feel ill and incapable, in the other you feel ill and lucid.
comforting news facts
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.
glasses giving stained-glass
Stained glass, engraved glass, frosted glass; give me plain glass.
winter essence civilization
In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.
modern aphorism generalization
An aphorism is a generalization, therefore not modern.
fixed plans accidents
Follow the accident, fear the fixed plan--that is the rule.