It is not only species of animal that die out, but whole species of feeling. And if you are wise you will never pity the past for what it did not know, but pity yourself for what it did.

John Fowles


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cras amet qui numquam amavit quique amavit cras amet.

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

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When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies

John Fowles

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

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Piers is always going on about how he hated Stowe. As if that solves everything, as if to hate something means it can't have affected you.

John Fowles

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

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He knew the world and its absurdities as only an intelligent Irishman can; which is to say that where his knowledge or memory failed him, his imagination was always ready to fill the gap.

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...and his eyes had that splendid innocence, that opaque blue candour of the satanically fallen. ~ The French Lieutenant’s Woman

John Fowles

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He makes me change, he makes me want to dance round him, bewilder him, dazzle him, dumbfound him. He' so slow, so unimaginative, so lifeless. Like zinc white. I see it's a sort of tyranny he has over me. He forces me to be changeable, to act. To show off. The hateful tyranny of weak people.

G.P. said it once.

The ordinary man is the curse of civilization.

John Fowles


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