newspaper named Fowles among their list of "The 50 greatest British writers
since 1945".
Fowles was born in Leigh-on-Sea
in Essex
, England, the son of Gladys May Richards and Robert John Fowles. Robert Fowles came from a family of middle-class merchants of London. Robert's father Reginald was a partner of the firm Allen & Wright, a tobacco importer.
Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.
There are only two races on this planet—the intelligent and the stupid.
There’s a card in the Tarot pack called The Magus. The magician, conjuror. Two of his traditional symbols are the lily and the rose.
I do not defend Conchis’ decision at the execution, but I defend the reality of the dilemma. God and freedom are totally anti-pathetic concepts; and men believe in their imaginary gods most often because they are afraid to believe in the other thing. I am old enough to realise now that they do sometimes with good reason. True freedom lies between each two, never in one alone, and therefore is never absolute freedom.
It must essentially remain a novel of adolescence written by a retarded adolescent.
Boston: Little, Brown 1977 edition
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. Ch. 17