John Fowles

I knew I would always want to go on living with myself, however hollow I became, however diseased. ↗

— John Fowles

#life

We talked for hours. He talked and I listened. It was like wind and sunlight. It blew all the cobwebs away. ↗

— John Fowles

#love #love

We are all in flight from the real reality. That is the basic definition of Homo Sapiens. ↗

— John Fowles

#life

That's the trouble with provincial life. Everyone knows everyone and there is no mystery. No romance. ↗

— John Fowles

#life

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

#atheist #coward #intelligence #intelligence

A thousand violins cloy very rapidly without percussion. ↗

— John Fowles

#music

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

#hopelessness #love #love

He is the same, but everything is different. ↗

— John Fowles

#inspirational

Each death laid a dreadful charge of complicity on the living; each death was incongenerous, its guilt irreducible, its sadness immortal; a bracelet of bright hair about the bone. ↗

— John Fowles

#death

He said, one has to learn that painting well - in the academic and technical sense - comes right at the bottom of the list. I mean, you've got that ability. So have thousands. ↗

— John Fowles

#artists #creativity #painting #skill #art