The price of tapping water into every house is that no one values water any more. John Fowles More Quotes by John Fowles More Quotes From John Fowles My hatred of crowds, the obviousness of crowds, of anything en masse. Is this why I like little-known books? A general desire to escape the main world. John Fowles hatred desire book Whole sight; or all the rest is desolation. John Fowles desolation whole sight All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one. John Fowles novelists real two It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live. John Fowles events character To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape. John Fowles contradictory suicide writing I hate the uneducated and the ignorant. I hate the pompous and the phoney. I hate the jealous and the resentful. I hate the crabbed and mean and the petty. I hate all ordinary dull little people who aren't ashamed of being dull and little. John Fowles jealous hate mean Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society. John Fowles illusion cherish people I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment. John Fowles selfishness brutality fighting He is solid; immovable, iron-willed. He showed me one day his killing bottle. I'm imprisoned in it. Fluttering against the glass. Because I can see through it I still think I can escape. I have hope. But it's all an illusion. A thick round wall of glass. John Fowles wall glasses thinking The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke. We're so weak physically, so helpless with things. Still, even today. But we're stronger than they are. We can stand their cruelty. They can't stand ours. John Fowles stronger today men There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist. John Fowles definitions god 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 Death is the room that is always empty. John Fowles empty rooms We chase the reward, we get the reward and then we discover that the true reward is always the next reward. Buying pleasure is a false end. John Fowles rewards next buying 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 independent real character You wish to be liked. I wish simply to be. One day you will know what that means, perhaps. And you will smile. Not against me. But with me. John Fowles one-day wish mean There cannot be any true leisure until all the world possesses it equally. John Fowles leisure world Art is a statement of one in the face of all; not a statement by one for the use of all. John Fowles use faces art Forgetting’s not something you do, it happens to you. Only it didn’t happen to me. John Fowles happens forget 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 nightmare routine men
