Sarah turned on her, and shook her head. "You may keep them. And if it is possible with so small a sum of money, I suggest you purchase some instrument of torture. I am sure Mrs. Fairly will be pleased to help you use it upon all those wretched enough to come under your power.

John Fowles


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Tavainimene on tsivilisatsiooni nuhtlus. Aga tema on juba ebatavaliselt tavaline.

John Fowles

Tags: human-nature normalness



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It's despair that so few of us care. It's despair that there's so much brutality and callousness in the world. It's despair that perfectly normal young men can be made vicious and evil because they've won a lot of money. And then do what you've done to me.

John Fowles

Tags: john-fowles the-collector



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Stop thinking about class, she'd say. Like a rich man telling a poor man to stop thinking about money.

John Fowles

Tags: money class privilege



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Do you know that every great thing in the history of art and every beautiful thing in life is actually what you call nasty or has been caused by feelings that you would call nasty? By passion, by love, by hatred, by truth. Do you know that?

John Fowles

Tags: art passion



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He said, it's rather like your voice. You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven't any choice. But it's what you say that counts. It's what distinguishes all great art from the other kind.

John Fowles

Tags: art personality



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A word (...) is never the destination, merely a signpost in its general direction; and whatever (...) body that destination finally acquires owes quite as much to the reader as to the writer.

John Fowles

Tags: words literature readers-and-writers



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Yaptığınız şeyler, daha önce yaptıklarınızı belirsizleştirir.

John Fowles


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The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke.

John Fowles

Tags: society women-s-strength



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You use your life.

John Fowles

Tags: inspirational



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