The newspapers are full of what we would like to happen to us and what we hope will never happen to us.
More Quotes from John Fowles:
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 hereJohn Fowles
Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.
John Fowles
I am going to explain to you why we went to war. Why mankind always does to war. It is not social or political. It is not countries that go to war, but men. It is like salt. Once one has been to war, one has salt for the rest of one's life. Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women from laughing at them.
John Fowles
You are like a porcupine. When the animal has its spines erect, it cannot eat. If you do not eat, you will starve. And your prickles will diewith the rest of your body.
John Fowles
That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects.
John Fowles
We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
John Fowles
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