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101 " Some people would say- you're only a drop, your word-breaking is only a drop, it wouldn't matter. But all the evil in the world's made up of little drops. It's silly talking about the unimportance of the little drops. The little drops and the ocean are the same thing. "
― John Fowles , The Collector
102 " There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be. You are too young to know this. You are still becoming. Not being. "
― John Fowles , The Magus
103 " I had always believed, and not only out of cynicism, that a man and a woman could tell in the first ten minutes whether they wanted to go to bed together; and that the time that passed after those first ten minutes represented a tax, which might be worth paying if the article promised to be really enjoyable, but which nine times out of ten became rapidly excessive. "
104 " It was an unforgettable painting; it set a dense golden halo of light round the most trivial of moments, so that the moment, and all such moments, could never be completely trivial again. "
105 " When I was going on one day in the car about not having any close friends - using my favourite metaphor: the cage of glass between me and the rest of the world - she just laughed. 'You like it,' she said. 'You say you're isolated, boyo, but you really think you're different. "
106 " The world began in hazard and will end in it. "
107 " An answer is always a form of death. "
108 " 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. "
109 " 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. "
― John Fowles
110 " I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart. "
111 " I think we are just insects, we live a bit and then die and that’s the lot. There’s no mercy in things. There’s not even a Great Beyond. There’s nothing. "
112 " We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words. "
― John Fowles , The French Lieutenant's Woman
113 " If you forget everything else about me, please remember this. I walked down that street and I never looked back and I love you. I love you. I love you so much that I shall hate you for ever for today. "
114 " We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that. "
115 " I hate the uneducated and the ignorant. I hate the pompous and the phoney. I hate the jealous and the resentful. I hate the crabbed and mean and the petty. I hate all ordinary dull little people who aren't ashamed of being dull and little. "
116 " Forgetting’s not something you do, it happens to you. Only it didn’t happen to me. "
117 " I am infinitely strange to myself. "
118 " Between skin and skin, there is only light. "
119 " You wish to be liked. I wish simply to be. One day you will know what that means, perhaps. And you will smile. Not against me. But with me. "
120 " The ordinary man is the curse of civilization. "
