John Fowles - Quotes
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In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters. ---->>>

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.
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. ---->>>
Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be. ---->>>
That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects. ---->>>
Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man. ---->>>
Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want. ---->>>
Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them. ---->>>
Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical. ---->>>
The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time. ---->>>
There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world. ---->>>
An answer is always a form of death. ---->>>
I don't think the English like me. I sold a colossal best seller in America, and they never really forgave me. ---->>>
Biography
John Robert Fowles (; 31 March 1926 – 5 November 2005) was an English novelist of international stature, critically positioned between modernism and postmodernism. His work reflects the influence of Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, among others. After leaving Oxford University, Fowles taught English at a school on the Greek island of Spetses, a sojourn that inspired The Magus, an instant best-seller that was directly in tune with 1960s "hippie" anarchism and experimental philosophy (wikipedia)