Quotes from John Fowles

Bu yüzden plan yapamay?z. Dünyan?n bir makine deÄŸil, bir organizma olduÄŸunu biliriz. Ak?ll?ca yarat?lm?? bir dünyan?n onu yaratandan ba??ms?z olmas? gerektiÄŸini de biliriz; planlanm?? (planland???n? iyice aç?k eden bir dünya) ölü bir dünyad?r. Karakterlerimiz ve olaylar?m?z ancak bize kar?? ç?kmaya baÅŸlad?klar?nda canlan?rlar.

We lack trust in the present, this moment, this actual seeing, because our culture tells us to trust only the reported back, the publicly framed, the edited, the thing set in the clearly artistic or the clearly scientific angle of perspective.

Si valoro la existencia de los árboles por encima de cualquier otra cosa, de una manera muy

This is true of all collecting. It extinguishes the moral instinct. The object finally possesses the possessor.

Which are you drinking? The water or the wave?

No amount of reading and intelligent deduction could supplant the direct experience.

...all cynicism masks a failure to cope.

I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope - an impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.

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

Follow the accident, fear the fixed plan--that is the rule.

An answer is always a form of death.