John Fowles Quotes - Page 7

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• An aphorism is a generalization, therefore not modern.

  John Fowles

  Modern, Aphorism, Generalization

  John Fowles (2009). “The Journals: Volume 1: 1949-1965”, p.433, Northwestern University Press

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• I mean I never feel I feel what I ought to feel.

  John Fowles

  Mean, Feels, Ought

  John Fowles (1963). “The collector”

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• There are two kinds of hangover: in one you feel ill and incapable, in the other you feel ill and lucid.

  John Fowles

  Hangover, Two, Kind

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

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• If you forget everything else about me, please remember this. I walked down that street and I never looked back and I love you. I love you. I love you so much that I shall hate you for ever for today.

  John Fowles

  Hate, Love You, Forget Everything

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

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• If anything might hurt her, silence would; and I wanted to hurt her.

  John Fowles

  Hurt, Silence, Might

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• Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base-in both senses-greed.

  John Fowles

  Beautiful, Baseball, War

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• The diary will really try and tell people who you are and what you were. The alternative is writing nothing, or creating a totally lifeless, as it is leafless, garden.

  John Fowles

  Writing, Garden, Creating

  2003 The Journals: Volume 1.

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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.

  John Fowles

  Memories, Intelligent, Imagination

  JOHN FOWLES “THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN”

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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

  Hate, Mean, Piers

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

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• All pasts are like poems; one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them.

  John Fowles

  Past, Poetry, Thousand

  John Fowles, Barry Brukoff (1980). “The Enigma of Stonehenge”, Simon & Schuster

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• It's like the day you realize dolls are dolls. I pick up my old self and I see it's silly. A toy I've played with too often. It's a little sad, like an old golliwog at the bottom of the cupboard. Innocent and used-up and proud and silly.

  John Fowles

  Silly, Self, Dolls

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

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