John Fowles Quotes

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.
John Fowles

Intelligence, Stupid, Two

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.
John Fowles

Life, Time, Yourself

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

Life, Important, Anyone

Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.
John Fowles

Accepting, Inhibit, Ought

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.
John Fowles

Nature, Through, Move

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

Love, Women, Men

The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time.
John Fowles

Time, Great, Misery

An answer is always a form of death.
John Fowles

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

Life, Word, Content

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.
John Fowles

Pretending, Duty, Critical

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

Best, America, English

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

End, Simply, Green

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

End, Passion, Paradox

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

Women, Great, Men

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

Why, Write, Common

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

Poetry, Words, Write

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Biography

Nationality: English

Born: March 31, 1926

Died: November 5, 2005

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