They're beautiful. But sad.'
Everything's sad if you make it so, I 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 FowlesYou must make, always. You must act, if you believe something. Talking about acting is like boasting about pictures you're going to paint. The most terrible bad form.
John FowlesHe said, I suppose there are people who are purely moved by great art. I never met a painter who was. I'm not. All I think of when I see that picture is that it has the supreme mastery I have spent all my life trying to attain. And shall not. Ever.
John FowlesThat was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.
John FowlesIt makes me sick,the blindness, deadness, out-of-dateness, stodginess and, yes, sheer jealous malice of the great bulk of England.
John FowlesWe all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.
John FowlesThe ordinary man is the curse of civilization.
John FowlesThe supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time; our sense of that, not a disinterested love of science, and certainly not wisdom, is why we devote such a huge proportion of the ingenuity and income of our societies to finding faster ways of doing things - as if the final aim of mankind was to grow closer not to a perfect humanity, but to a perfect lightning-flash.
John Fowlesand like most people who have spent much of their adult life being emotionally dishonest, I overcalculated the sympathy a final being honest would bring
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