Fowles Wnba Quotes

This pain, this terrible seeing-through that is in me now. It wasn't necessary. It is all pain, and it buys nothing. Gives birth to nothing.
All in vain. All wasted.
The older the world becomes, the more obvious it is. The bomb and the tortures in Algeria and the starving babies in the Congo. It gets bigger and darker.
More and more suffering for more and more. And more and more in vain. ~ John Fowles

Think what it would be like if you got back to your island and there was no old man, no girl any more. No mysterious fun and games. The whole place locked up forever. ~ John Fowles

I think it's great that young girls have the WNBA to look up to now. ~ Candace Parker

On the whole, dialogue is the most difficult thing, without any doubt. It's very difficult, unfortunately. You have to detach yourself from the notion of a lifelike quality. You see, actually lifelike, tape-recorded dialogue like this has very little to do with good novel dialogue. It's a matter of getting that awful tyranny of mimesis out of your mind, which is difficult. ~ John Fowles

In our age it is not sex that raises its ugly head, but love. ~ John Fowles

It's like the day you realize dolls are dolls. I pick up my old self and I see it's silly. A toy I've played with too often. It's a little sad, like an old golliwog at the bottom of the cupboard. Innocent and used-up and proud and silly. ~ John Fowles

Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want. ~ John Fowles

I'm glad you're doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We're so much prettier than all the other women in sports. ~ Martina Hingis

And I envy you. You have the one thing that matters. You have all your discoveries before you. ~ John Fowles

All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one. ~ John Fowles

Life is not a symbol, is not one riddle and one failure to guess it, is not to inhabit one face alone or to be given up after one losing throw of the dice; but is to be, however inadequately, emptily, hopelessly into the city's iron heart, endured. And out again, upon the unplumb'd, salt, estranging sea. ~ John Fowles

I remember later he said (Professor Higgins again), you don't really stand a dog's chance anyhow. You're too pretty. The art of love's your line: not the love of art. ~ John Fowles

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

...there are times when silence is a poem. ~ John Fowles

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical. ~ John Fowles

We shall never fully understand nature (or ourselves), and certainly never respect it, until we dissociate the wild from the notion of usability - however innocent and harmless the use. For it is the general uselessness of so much of nature that lies at the root of our ancient hostility and indifference to it. ~ John Fowles

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. ~ John Fowles

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words. ~ John Fowles

Lizards flashed up the pine-trunks like living emerald necklaces. ~ John Fowles

M. I've never really thought of M objectively before, as another person. She's always been my mother I've hated or been ashamed of. Yet of all the lame ducks I've met or heard of, she's the lamest. I've never given her enough sympathy. I haven't given her this last year (since I left home) one half of the consideration I've given the beastly creature upstairs just this last week. I feel that I could overwhelm her with love now. Because I haven't felt so sorry for her for years. I've always excused myself - I've said, I'm kind and tolerant with everyone else, she's the one person I can't be like that with, and there has to be an exception to the general rule. So it doesn't matter. But of course that's wrong. She's the last person that should be an exception to the general rule.

Minny and I have so often despised D for putting up with her. We ought to go down on
our knees to him. ~ John Fowles

Which are you drinking? The water or the wave? ~ John Fowles

Whole sight; or all the rest is desolation. ~ John Fowles

He had the charm of all people who believe implicitly in themselves, that of integration. ~ John Fowles

But she finally had the good sense to see that a long, dull and predictable future was an expensive price to pay for the satisfaction of a passing sexual attraction. ~ John Fowles

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

Another reason I think the novel will survive is that the reader has to work in a novel. In a film, you are presented with someone else's imagination exactly bodied out. The marvelous thing about a novel is that every reader will imagine even the very simplest sentence slightly differently. ~ John Fowles

You come to the United States not knowing what to expect. Then all your worst prejudices are confirmed. ~ John Fowles

I'm not really sorry. But I'm not absolutely unsorry. ~ John Fowles

We can sometimes recognize the looks of a century ago on a modern face; but never those of a century to come. ~ John Fowles

Only fools think our attitude to our fellow men is a thing distinct from our attitude to 'lesser' life on this planet. ~ John Fowles

It is not the state of war that isolates. It is well known, it brings people together. But in the battlefield
that is something different.
Because that is when the real enemy, death, appears. I no longer saw any warmth in numbers. I saw only Thanatos in them, my death. And just as much in my own comrades, in Montague, as in the invisible Germans. ~ John Fowles

Poetry had always seemed something I could turn to in need - an emergency exit, a lifebuoy, as well as a justification. ~ John Fowles

There's lots of charity stuff that I can do. There are actually a million things to do here, but it would be very hard for me to stop going overseas, because I've been doing that for longer than I've been playing in the WNBA. ~ Sue Wicks

Forgetting's not something you do, it happens to you. Only it didn't happen to me. ~ John Fowles

The battle was over. Our casualties were some thirteen thousand killed
thirteen thousand minds, memories, loves, sensations, worlds, universes
because the human mind is more a universe than the universe itself
and all for a few hundred yards of useless mud. ~ John Fowles

A word ( ... ) is never the destination, merely a signpost in its general direction; and whatever ( ... ) body that destination finally acquires owes quite as much to the reader as to the writer. ~ John Fowles