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• Man is about to be deprived of a great pole - work routine. The nightmare of capitalist society is unemployment; the nightmare of cybernetic society will be employment.

  John Fowles

  Men, Routine, Nightmare

  John Fowles (1970). “The Aristos”, Signet Book

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• Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile: that what might not be, is.

  John Fowles

  Nature, Stars, World

  John Fowles (1965). “The Magus”

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• I do not plan my fiction any more than I normally plan woodland walks; I follow the path that seems most promising at any given point, not some itinerary decided before entry.

  John Fowles

  Fiction, Path, Given

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• There is no plan. All is hazard. And the only thing that will preserve us is ourselves.

  John Fowles

  Hazards, Plans, Preserves

  John Fowles (1965). “The Magus”

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

  John Fowles

  Character, Events

  JOHN FOWLES (1969). “THE FRENCH LIEUTENTANT'S WOMAN”

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• To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.

  John Fowles

  Suicide, Writing, Contradictory

  John Fowles (1965). “The Magus”

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• I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart.

  John Fowles

  Life, Heart, Copying

  John Fowles (1980). “The collector”, Dell Pub Co

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• How can one build a better self unless on the ruins of the old?

  John Fowles

  Self, Ruins

  JOHN FOWLES (1969). “THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN”

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• Art is a statement of one in the face of all; not a statement by one for the use of all.

  John Fowles

  Art, Use, Faces

  John Fowles (1970). “The Aristos”, Signet Book

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• There are some men who are consoled by the idea that there are women less attractive than their wives; and others who are haunted by the knowledge that there are more attractive.

  John Fowles

  Men, Ideas, Wife

  JOHN FOWLES (1969). “THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN”

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• Even more ominous ... is the fact that since the Second World War a new kind of intellectual has emerged in large numbers. ... he is only minimally interested in the proper intellectual significance of images and objects. Such people are not really intellectuals, but visuals ... A visual is more interested in style than in content ... A visual does not feel a rioting crowd being machine-gunned by the police, he simply sees a brilliant news photograph.

  John Fowles

  War, Numbers, People

  "The Aristos: A Self-Portrait in Ideas". Book by John Fowles, 1964.

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• Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.

  John Fowles

  Pairs, Lone Wolf, Myth

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• Only one same reason is shared by all of us: we wish to create worlds as real as, but other than the world that is. Or was. This is why we cannot plan. We know a world is an organism, not a machine. We also know that a genuinely created world must be independent of its creator; a planned world (a world that fully reveals its planning) is a dead world. It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live.

  John Fowles

  Real, Character, Independent

  JOHN FOWLES (1969). “THE FRENCH LIEUTENTANT'S WOMAN”

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• All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one.

  John Fowles

  Real, Two, Novelists

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• Our knowledge of what the richer than ourselves possess, and the poor do not, has never been more widespread. Therefore, envy, which is wanting what others have, and jealousy, which is not wanting others to have what one has, have never been more widespread.

  John Fowles

  Envy, Poor

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• Medieval theologians used to dispute how the angels in the heaven spent their time, when not balancing on needle points and singing anthems to the Lord. I know. They slump glued to their clouds, glasses at the ready, as the Archangel Micheal (that well-known slasher) and stonewalling St Peter open against the Devils XI. It could not be Heaven, otherwise.

  John Fowles

  Angel, Clouds, Glasses

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• I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.

  John Fowles

  Fighting, Selfishness, Brutality

  John Fowles (1980). “The collector”, Dell Pub Co

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• I am talking about the general psychological health
  of the species, man. He needs the existence of
  mysteries. Not their solution.

  John Fowles

  Men, Psychological Health, Talking

  John Fowles (1968). “The Magus”, Pan

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• He's not human; he's an empty space disguised as a human.

  John Fowles

  Space, Hatred, Empty

  John Fowles (1963). “The collector”

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• I knew I would always want to go on living with myself, however hollow I became, however diseased.

  John Fowles

  Goes On, Want, Diseased

  John Fowles (1965). “The Magus”

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• The practise of an art is essential to the whole man, not because of what art is but because of what art does to the artist.

  John Fowles

  Art, Men, Essentials

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• The world began in hazard and will end in it.

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  Hazards, World, Ends

  John Fowles (1968). “The Magus”, Pan

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• On the whole, dialogue is the most difficult thing, without any doubt. It's very difficult, unfortunately. You have to detach yourself from the notion of a lifelike quality. You see, actually lifelike, tape-recorded dialogue like this has very little to do with good novel dialogue. It's a matter of getting that awful tyranny of mimesis out of your mind, which is difficult.

  John Fowles

  Writing, Doubt, Mind

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• The best wines take the longest to mature.

  John Fowles

  Wine, Mature, Best Wine

  JOHN FOWLES (1969). “THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN”

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• Forgetting’s not something you do, it happens to you. Only it didn’t happen to me.

  John Fowles

  Forget, Happens

  John Fowles (1980). “The collector”, Dell Pub Co

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