The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented. John Fowles More Quotes by John Fowles More Quotes From John Fowles And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did. John Fowles mental-illness mad depression If a person is intelligent, then of course he is either an agnostic or an atheist. Just as he is a physical coward. They are automatic definitions of high intelligence. John Fowles coward intelligent atheist But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it's no go if your personality isn't worth translating. John Fowles paint lines personality Just those three words, said and meant. I love you. They were quite hopeless. He said it as he might have said, I have cancer. His fairy story. John Fowles fairy-stories cancer love-you Duty is but a pot. It holds whatever is put in it, from the greatest evil to the greatest good. John Fowles duty evil pot The great majority of modern third-person narration is "I" narration very thinly disguised. John Fowles modern majority crafts The absurdly neurotic role you and the rest of your kind have always attributed to me Erato, the Goddess Muse of Erotic Poetry bears no relation at all to reality. As a matter of fact, I was trained as a clinical psychologist. Who simply happens to have specialized in the mental illness that you, in your ignorance, call literature. John Fowles ignorance writing reality Whatever sympathy I feel towards religions, whatever admiration for some of their adherents, whatever historical or biological necessity I see in them, whatever metaphorical truth, I cannot accept them as credible explanations of reality; and they are incredible to me in proportion to the degree that they require my belief in positive human attributes and intervenient powers in their divinities. John Fowles historical sympathy reality He's not human; he's an empty space disguised as a human. John Fowles empty space hatred Like all mystics (and many novelists, not least the present one) he is baffled, a child, before the real now; far happier out of it, in a narrative past or a prophetic future, locked inside that weird tence grammar does not allow, the imaginary present. John Fowles real writing children Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these two great Anglo-Saxon ball games for sophisticated elegance and symbolism. 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. With football we are back to the monotonous clashing armor of the brontosaurus. John Fowles baseball beautiful football If anything might hurt her, silence would; and I wanted to hurt her. John Fowles silence hurt might I have a strange illusion quite often. I think I've become deaf. I have to make a little noise to prove I'm not. I clear my throat to show myself that everything is normal. It's like the little Japanese girl they found in the ruins of Hiroshima. Everything dead; and she was singing to her doll. John Fowles singing girl thinking I will tell you what war is. War is a psychosis caused by an inability to see relationships. Our relationship with our fellowmen. Our relationship with our economic and historical situation. And above all our relationship to nothingness, to death. John Fowles psychosis historical war We can sometimes recognize the looks of a century ago on a modern face; but never those of a century to come. John Fowles faces sometimes looks 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 doubt mind writing Evolution did not intend trees to grow singly. Far more than ourselves they are social creatures, and no more natural as isolated specimens than man is as a marooned sailor or hermit. John Fowles sailor tree men 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 wife men ideas 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 essentials men art How can one build a better self unless on the ruins of the old? John Fowles ruins self
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