John Fowles quote: "I want to tell you what's really happened."<br /><br />"Not now. Please not now. Whatever's happened, come and make love to me."<br /><br />And we did make love; not sex, but love; though sex would have been so much wiser."

I just think of things as beautiful or not. Can't you understand? I don't think of good or bad. Just...
JOHN FOWLES

We all write poems. It is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
JOHN FOWLES

You young people can lend your bodies now, play with them, give them as we could not. But remember t...
JOHN FOWLES

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.
JOHN FOWLES

One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on...
JOHN FOWLES

Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.
JOHN FOWLES

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

Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a...
JOHN FOWLES

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It i...
JOHN FOWLES

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move ...
JOHN FOWLES

You despise the real bourgeois classes for all their snobbishness and their snobbish voices and ways...
JOHN FOWLES

The human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed."

"I suppose one ...
JOHN FOWLES

The honest poor are the moneyless vulgar rich. Poverty forces them to have good qualities and pride ...
JOHN FOWLES

If anything might hurt her, silence would; and I wanted to hurt her.
JOHN FOWLES

That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships betwee...
JOHN FOWLES

I don't think the English like me. I sold a colossal best seller in America, and they never real...
JOHN FOWLES

People won't admit it, they're too busy grabbing to see that the lights have fused. They can't see t...
JOHN FOWLES

So I felt this burning summer. In form I might
belong to humankind; in reality I seemed one of a...
JOHN FOWLES

He is solid; immovable, iron-willed. He showed me one day his killing bottle. I'm imprisoned in it. ...
JOHN FOWLES

Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because they imagine it is the only thing that ...
JOHN FOWLES

I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.
JOHN FOWLES

Once upon a time there was a young prince who believed in all things but three. He did not believe i...
JOHN FOWLES

Look, Miranda, he said, those twenty long years that lie between you and me. I've more knowledge of ...
JOHN FOWLES

When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies
JOHN FOWLES

I think we are just insects, we live a bit and then die and that’s the lot. There’s no mercy in ...
JOHN FOWLES

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
JOHN FOWLES

There are only two races on this planet -- the intelligent and the stupid.
JOHN FOWLES

Как-то он показал мне сосуд. Называется морилка. Усыпля...
JOHN FOWLES

It was an unforgettable painting; it set a dense golden halo of light round the most trivial of mome...
JOHN FOWLES

The moon hung over the planet Earth, a dead thing over a dying thing.
JOHN FOWLES

So I felt this burning summer. In form I mightbelong to humankind; in reality I seemed one of araven...
JOHN FOWLES

An answer is always a form of death.
JOHN FOWLES

We all write poems; it is simply that the poets are the ones who write in words
JOHN FOWLES

Whatever sympathy I feel towards religions, whatever admiration for some of their adherents, whateve...
JOHN FOWLES

Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.
JOHN FOWLES

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create...
JOHN FOWLES

In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.
JOHN FOWLES

You are like a porcupine. When the animal has its spines erect, it cannot eat. If you do not eat, yo...
JOHN FOWLES

This pain, this terrible seeing-through that is in me now. It wasn't necessary. It is all pain, and ...
JOHN FOWLES

A mixture, before the English, of irritation and bafflement, of having this same language, same past...
JOHN FOWLES

8. You hate the political buisness of nationality. You hate everything, in politics and art and ever...
JOHN FOWLES

Kuulamine nõuab kahte poolt. Ühte, kes annab, ja teist, kes võtab, mida antakse.
JOHN FOWLES

To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attemp...
JOHN FOWLES

I hate the uneducated and the ignorant. I hate the pompous and the phoney. I hate the jealous and th...
JOHN FOWLES

For him the tragedy of Homo sapiens is that the least fit to survive breed the most.
JOHN FOWLES

Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting...
JOHN FOWLES

Death is not in the nature of things; it is the nature of things. But what dies is the form. The mat...
JOHN FOWLES

She smiled at him as they waited for their dessert, her chin poised on her clasped hands.
'You'...
JOHN FOWLES

There are some men who are consoled by the idea that there are women less attractive than their wive...
JOHN FOWLES

I have not made up my mind about Marian (another M! I heard the supervisor call her name), this time...
JOHN FOWLES

You do not even think of your own past as quite real; you dress it up, you gild it or blacken it, ce...
JOHN FOWLES

In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.
JOHN FOWLES

If there is a God he's a great loathsome spider in the darkness.
JOHN FOWLES

Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish if we are to live in society. It is one I have...
JOHN FOWLES

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

- Вот она, истина. Не в серпе и молоте. Не в звездах и пол�...
JOHN FOWLES

I needed a new mystery.
JOHN FOWLES

Just those three words, said and meant. I love you.

They were quite hopeless. He said it ...
JOHN FOWLES

I am one in a row of specimens. It's when I try to flutter out of line that he hates me. I'm meant t...
JOHN FOWLES

Between skin and skin, there is only light.
JOHN FOWLES

He had the charm of all people who believe implicitly in themselves, that of integration.
JOHN FOWLES

Time in itself, absolutely, does not exist; it is always relative to some observer or some object. W...
JOHN FOWLES

He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal.
JOHN FOWLES

They pay thousands and thousands for the Van Goghs and Modiglianis they'd have spat on at the time t...
JOHN FOWLES

When I was going on one day in the car about not having any close friends - using my favourite metap...
JOHN FOWLES

A word (...) is never the destination, merely a signpost in its general direction; and whatever (......
JOHN FOWLES

Her stare fixed me. Without rancour and without regret; without triumph and without evil; as Desdemo...
JOHN FOWLES

Nine-tenths of all artistic creation derives its basic energy from the engine of repression and subl...
JOHN FOWLES

Your first reaction is the characteristic one of your contrasuggestible century: to disbelieve, to d...
JOHN FOWLES

Everything free and decent in life is being locked away in filthy little cellars by beastly people w...
JOHN FOWLES

[об американцах]
— Я понимаю, они — туристы, не отлич...
JOHN FOWLES

In our age it is not sex that raises its ugly head, but love.
JOHN FOWLES

It's despair at the lack of feeling, of love, of reason in the world. It's despair that anyone can e...
JOHN FOWLES

Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women la...
JOHN FOWLES

The bowed head, the buried face. She is silent, she will never speak, never forgive, never reach a h...
JOHN FOWLES

It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.
JIB FOWLES

I've only noticed a hearing difference if I've been listening to loud music for an hour or more.
DANIEL FOWLES

My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so...
JOHN OLIVER

Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al...
JOHN BERGER

No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai...
JOHN WYCLIFFE

By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am...
JOHN ROBERTS

Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, yo...
JOHN NOBLE

Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s...
DAYMOND JOHN

Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Th...
JOHN ELWAY

This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war...
JOHN TYLER

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
JOHN LENNON

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
JOHN MORTIMER

No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
JOHN JAY

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
JOHN LOCKE

High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just ...
JOHN MAYER

When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't b...
JOHN LEWIS

The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobi...
JOHN LEWIS

Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the ...
JOHN CALVIN

I was introduced to the Turducken in New Orleans. And it wasn't Thanksgiving. Glenn at the Gourm...
JOHN MADDEN

Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fa...
JOHN CLAYTON

Is it possible that the portrait of the divine Son of God is an exaggeration, at best, or a complete...
JOHN CLAYTON

Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New ...
JOHN CLAYTON

I believe any question that man can ask has a reasonable answer-at least an answer that is as consis...
JOHN CLAYTON

Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a Go...
JOHN CLAYTON

I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish ...
JOHN CLAYTON

In the surface of the paper there is only length and width-there is no such thing as thickness.
JOHN CLAYTON

Why is it any more reasonable to believe that God has always been than it is to say that matter has ...
JOHN CLAYTON

What is the origin of God?
JOHN CLAYTON

The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and e...
JOHN CLAYTON

The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing...
JOHN CLAYTON

Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are t...
JOHN CLAYTON

There was no instruction to be thankful that the Christians were special people, chosen people. Ther...
JOHN CLAYTON

It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that we...
JOHN CLAYTON

We are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is re...
JOHN CLAYTON

The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God ...
JOHN CLAYTON

Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it f...
JOHN CLAYTON

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
JOHN BURROUGHS

You wouldn't do something for a receiver to catch the ball if the quarterback couldn't throw...
JOHN MADDEN

I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'...
ELTON JOHN

The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male ...
JOHN LEGEND

I have learned in fashion to be a little savage.
JOHN FAIRCHILD

Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my...
JOHN PRESCOTT

My consultant keeps telling me sudden death could come at any moment.
JOHN TAVENER

As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allot...
JOHN BATTELLE

When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.
JOHN MUIR

Inherent in architecture, it involves everything in life so that there is absolutely no end to it. B...
JOHN LAUTNER

My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers.
JOHN WAYNE

I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That's why I started in with the prop...
JOHN WAYNE

I've loved reading all my life.
JOHN WAYNE

Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly li...
JOHN WAYNE

I'd read up on the history of our country and I'd become fascinated with the story of the Al...
JOHN WAYNE

Get off your butt and join the Marines!
JOHN WAYNE

Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that...
JOHN WAYNE

Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it&...
JOHN WAYNE

In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures.
JOHN WAYNE

I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the ...
JOHN WAYNE

I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers ...
JOHN WAYNE

All I'm for is the liberty of the individual.
JOHN WAYNE

Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.
JOHN WAYNE

When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I'm not going to do anything tha...
JOHN WAYNE

You learn a lot more from the lows because it makes you pay attention to what you're doing.
JOHN ELWAY

I've experienced the highest of highs and lowest of lows. I think to really appreciate anything ...
JOHN ELWAY

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer ...
JOHN WOODEN

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't i...
JOHN LENNON

Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.
JOHN LITHGOW

Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.
JOHN PORTMAN

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
JOHN DONNE

Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.
JOHN MCCARTHY

If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.
JOHN MALKOVICH

I think people took Grenada for what it turned out to be, which was a very specific incident and fro...
JOHN NEGROPONTE

Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matte...
JOHN LUKACS

Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.
JOHN WOODEN

The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
JOHN MILTON

I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested i...
JOHN GLENN

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shir...
JOHN HEYWOOD

Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.
JOHN HEYWOOD

Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?
JOHN HEYWOOD

When all candles be out, all cats be grey.
JOHN HEYWOOD

Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar.
JOHN CIARDI

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad y...
JOHN CIARDI

What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks ...
JOHN CIARDI

Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!
JOHN CIARDI

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.
JOHN CIARDI

Poetry lies its way to the truth.
JOHN CIARDI

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.
JOHN CIARDI

Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.
JOHN CIARDI

The day will happen whether or not you get up.
JOHN CIARDI

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
JOHN CIARDI

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they hav...
JOHN CIARDI

The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.
JOHN CIARDI

With any of the movies I've had a chance to do, or any of the TV shows I've had a chance to ...
JOHN CENA

The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undi...
JOHN CHEEVER

Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
JOHN WEBSTER

Old friends are best.
JOHN SELDEN

They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side.
JOHN MAYER

Rome was not built in one day.
JOHN HEYWOOD

You win by working hard, making tough decisions and building coalitions.
JOHN ENGLER

I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the ...
JOHN MCGAHERN

The last thing on my mind was to be an actor, but I had a crush on a cute girl in the drama departme...
JOHN RATZENBERGER

He who laughs most, learns best.
JOHN CLEESE

Some people feel fulfillment from a bitter end - it gives them some sort of sense of reality. But, w...
JOHN BOYEGA

I've never eaten just a few bites of things I liked in my life.
JOHN MADDEN

The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.
JOHN WOODEN

A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.
JOHN WOODEN

Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That's in your...
JOHN WOODEN

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
JOHN WOODEN

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
JOHN WOODEN

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
JOHN LOCKE

It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all...
JOHN LOCKE

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the tr...
JOHN LOCKE

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
JOHN LOCKE

It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a ...
JOHN LENNON

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people cal...
JOHN LENNON

I believe time wounds all heels.
JOHN LENNON

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. I...
JOHN LENNON

When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have...
JOHN LENNON

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, th...
JOHN LENNON

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always...
JOHN LENNON

You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!
JOHN LENNON

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
JOHN LENNON

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptat...
JOHN LOCKE

In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community...
JOHN THORN

I'm really passionate about pantomime because it is often the first introduction for a child to ...
JOHN BARROWMAN

You have to keep persevering. An actor goes to a lot of auditions and doesn't get the part.
JOHN MCENROE

Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depress...
JOHN MELLENCAMP

I want to tell you what's really happened."

"Not now. Please not now. Whatever's happened, come and make love to me."

And we did make love; not sex, but love; though sex would have been so much wiser.

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I want to tell you what's really happened."

"Not now. Please not now. Whatever's happened, come and make love to me."

And we did make love; not sex, but love; though sex would have been so much wiser.

John Fowles

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I want to tell you what's really happened.""Not now. Please not now. Whatever's happened, come and make love to me."And we did make love; not sex, but love; though sex would have been so much wiser.

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I want to tell you what's really happened."

"Not now. Please not now. Whatever's happened, come and make love to me."

And we did make love; not sex, but love; though sex would have been so much wiser.