438 Quotes by John Fowles

I hate what G.P. calls the New People, the new class people with their cars and their money and their tellies and their stupid vulgarities and their stupid crawling imitations of the bourgeoisie.(...)The New People are still the poor people, it is the new form of poverty. The others hadn't any money and these haven't any soul.

كلما فهمت الحرية على نحو افضل , كلما اصبحت اقل امتلاكاً لها

There are three types of intelligent persons: the first so intelligent that being called very intelligent must seem natural and obvious; the second sufficiently intelligent to see that he is being flattered, not described; the third so little intelligent that he will believe anything. I knew I belonged to the second kind.

I think he was a little like the lizard that changes color with its surroundings. He appeared far more a gentleman in a gentleman's house. In that inn, I saw him for what he was. And I knew his color there was far more natural than the other.

Comprendo que soy terriblemente cobarde. No quiero morir, porque amo la vida apasionadamente. ¡Nunca había sabido hasta hoy cuánta es mi ansia de vivir! Si consigo librarme de este infierno, jamás podré volver a ser lo que era antes.

He had not the benefit of existentialist terminology; but what he felt was a very clear case of the anxiety of freedom - that is, the realization that one is free and the realization that being free is a situation of terror

I do not plan my fiction any more than I normally plan woodland walks; I follow the path that seems most promising at any given point, not some itinerary decided before entry.

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

There is no plan. All is hazard. And the only thing that will preserve us is ourselves.