It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live. John Fowles More Quotes by John Fowles More Quotes From John Fowles 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 passionbeautifulart Follow the accident, fear the fixed plan--that is the rule. John Fowles accidentsfixedplans Science disembodies; art embodies. John Fowles art I am talking about the general psychological health John Fowles psychological-healthtalkingmen Our present educational systems are all paramilitary. Their aim is to produce servants or soldiers who obey without question and who accepts their training as the best possible training. Those who are most successful in the state are those who have the most interest in prolonging the state as it is; they are also those who have the most say in the educational system, and in particular by ensuring that the educational product they want is the most highly rewarded. John Fowles educationalsuccessfulsoldier You come to the United States not knowing what to expect. Then all your worst prejudices are confirmed. John Fowles united-statesprejudiceknowing I am going to explain to you why we went to war. Why mankind always goes to war. It is not social or political. It is not countries that go to war, but men. It is like salt. Once one has been to war, one has salt for the rest of one's life. Do you understand? John Fowles laughterlifecountry 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 copyingheartlife I just think of things as beautiful or not. Can't you understand? I don't think of good or bad. Just of beautiful or ugly. I think a lot of nice things are ugly and a lot of nasty things are beautiful. John Fowles nicebeautifulthinking Always we try to put the wild in a cage. John Fowles cagesenvironmenttrying When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies John Fowles drawsdiesphotograph An easterly is the most disagreeable wind in Lyme Bay — Lyme Bay being that largest bite from the underside of England's outstretched southwestern leg — and a person of curiosity could at once have deduced several strong probabilities about the pair who began to walk down the quay at Lyme Regis, the small but ancient eponym of the inbite, one incisively sharp and blustery morning in the late March of 1867. John Fowles strongmorningwind The word is the most imprecise of signs. Only a science-obsessed age could fail to comprehend that this is its great virtue, not its defect. John Fowles virtuefailingage We talked for hours. He talked and I listened. It was like wind and sunlight. It blew all the cobwebs away. John Fowles cobwebshourswind His statement to himself should have been, 'I possess this now, therefore I am happy', instead of what it so Victorianly was: "I cannot possess this for ever, and therefore am sad." John Fowles has-beensshould-haveforever 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 starsnatureworld It came to me…that I didn’t want to be anywhere else in the world at that moment, that what I was feeling at that moment justified all I had been through, because all I had been through was my being there. I was experiencing…a new self-acceptance, a sense that I had to be this mind and this body, its vices and its virtues, and that I had no other chance or choice. John Fowles choicesacceptanceself You're not me. You can't feel like I feel." "I can feel." "No you can't. You just choose not to feel or something and everything's fine." "It's not fine. It's just not so bad. John Fowles finei-canfeels ...all cynicism masks a failure to cope. John Fowles maskcynicism And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did. John Fowles mental-illnessmaddepression
