26 ordspråk av John Fowles

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John Fowles föddes den March 31st 1926 - English writer
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 An answer is always a form of death.

 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

 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

 Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.

 Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

 I can see it is very far from being universally well written. I fell into almost every trap awaiting the tyro writer.

 I don't think the English like me. I sold a colossal best seller in America, and they never really forgave me.

 In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.

 In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

 In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

 Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.

 Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.

 Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.

 So I felt this burning summer. In form I might
belong to humankind; in reality I seemed one of a
ravenous self-destroying horde of rats.
I am glad there is no God. If there were,
I cannot imagine that we rampant, myopic, and
insatiably self-centred creatures should
be allowed to survive a single day more

 So I felt this burning summer. In form I might
belong to humankind; in reality I seemed one of a
ravenous self-destroying horde of rats.
I am glad there is no God. If there were,
I cannot imagine that we rampant, myopic, and
insatiably self-centred creatures should
be allowed to survive a single day more


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