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
war psychosis historical
I will tell you what war is. War is a psychosis caused by an inability to see relationships. Our relationship with our fellowmen. Our relationship with our economic and historical situation. And above all our relationship to nothingness, to death.
looks faces sometimes
We can sometimes recognize the looks of a century ago on a modern face; but never those of a century to come.
men stronger today
The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke. We're so weak physically, so helpless with things. Still, even today. But we're stronger than they are. We can stand their cruelty. They can't stand ours.
years months monsters
Wealth is a monster. It takes a month to learn to control it financially. And many years to learn to control it psychologically.
effort green cynicism
I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope - an impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.
hate love-you forget-everything
If you forget everything else about me, please remember this. I walked down that street and I never looked back and I love you. I love you. I love you so much that I shall hate you for ever for today.
want goes-on hollow
I knew I would always want to go on living with myself, however hollow I became, however diseased.
pairs lone-wolf myth
Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.
voice choices speak
You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven't any choice. But it's what you say that counts.
hurt silence might
If anything might hurt her, silence would; and I wanted to hurt her.
men contentment
Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.
marry-me will-you-marry-me ask-me
Ask me to marry you." "Will you marry me?" "No.
atheist intelligent coward
If a person is intelligent, then of course he is either an agnostic or an atheist. Just as he is a physical coward. They are automatic definitions of high intelligence.
girl thinking singing
I have a strange illusion quite often. I think I've become deaf. I have to make a little noise to prove I'm not. I clear my throat to show myself that everything is normal. It's like the little Japanese girl they found in the ruins of Hiroshima. Everything dead; and she was singing to her doll.