26 ordspråk av John Fowles

John Fowles

John Fowles föddes den 31 mars 1926 - English writer
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There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not anymore what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

We all write poems; it is simply that the poets are the ones who write in words

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

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 ar

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

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.

The more abhorrent a news item the more comforting it was to be the recipient, since the fact that it had happened elsewhere proved that it had not happened here, was not happening here, and would therefore never happen here

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

Time is not a road - it is a room

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

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

An answer is always a form of death.

Han visade en cool och pexig nonchalans inför risker. Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.

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