Джон Роберт Фаулз цитаты

Джон Ро́берт Фа́улз — английский писатель, романист и эссеист. Один из выдающихся представителей постмодернизма в литературе. Wikipedia  

✵ 31. Март 1926 – 5. Ноябрь 2005   •   Другие имена جان فاولز
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“I'm not really sorry. But I'm not absolutely unsorry.”

John Fowles книга The Collector

Источник: The Collector

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

John Fowles книга The French Lieutenant's Woman

Источник: The French Lieutenant's Woman

“When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies”

John Fowles книга The Collector

Источник: The Collector

“Between skin and skin, there is only light.”

John Fowles книга The Magus

Источник: The Magus

“There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.”

John Fowles книга The French Lieutenant's Woman

Источник: The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969), Ch. 13, p. 99

“I knew I would always want to go on living with myself, however hollow I became, however diseased.”

John Fowles книга The Magus

Daniel Martin (1977)
Источник: The Magus
Контексте: I saw that I was from now on, for ever, contemptible. I had been and remained, intensely depressed, but I had also been, and always would be, intensely false; in existentialist terms, inauthentic. I knew I would never kill myself, I knew I would always want to go on living with myself, however hollow I became, however diseased.

“But forgetting's not something you do, it happens to you. Only it didn't happen to me”

John Fowles книга The Collector

Вариант: Forgetting’s not something you do, it happens to you. Only it didn’t happen to me.
Источник: The Collector

“The genius, of course, is largely indifferent to contemporary success; and his commitment to his ideals, both artistic and political, is profoundly, Byronically, indifferent to their contemporary popularity.”

John Fowles книга The Aristos

The Aristos (1964)
Контексте: The artefacts of a genius are distinguished by rich human content, for which he forges new images and new techniques, creates new styles. He sees himself as a unique eruption in the desert of the banal. He feels himself mysteriously inspired or possessed. The craftsman, on the other hand, is content to use the traditional materials and techniques. The more self-possessed he is, the better craftsman he will be. What pleases him is skill of execution. He is very concerned with his contemporary success, his market value. If a certain kind of political commitment is fashionable, he may be committed; but out of fashion, not conviction. The genius, of course, is largely indifferent to contemporary success; and his commitment to his ideals, both artistic and political, is profoundly, Byronically, indifferent to their contemporary popularity. <!-- no. 61

“I know what I am to him. A butterfly he has always wanted to catch.”

John Fowles книга The Collector

The Collector (1963)
Контексте: I know what I am to him. A butterfly he has always wanted to catch. I remember (the very first time I met him) G. P. saying that collectors were the worst animals of all. He meant art collectors, of course. I didn’t really understand, I thought he was just trying to shock Caroline — and me. But of course, he is right. They’re anti-life, anti-art, anti-everything.

“The artefacts of a genius are distinguished by rich human content, for which he forges new images and new techniques, creates new styles. He sees himself as a unique eruption in the desert of the banal.”

John Fowles книга The Aristos

The Aristos (1964)
Контексте: The artefacts of a genius are distinguished by rich human content, for which he forges new images and new techniques, creates new styles. He sees himself as a unique eruption in the desert of the banal. He feels himself mysteriously inspired or possessed. The craftsman, on the other hand, is content to use the traditional materials and techniques. The more self-possessed he is, the better craftsman he will be. What pleases him is skill of execution. He is very concerned with his contemporary success, his market value. If a certain kind of political commitment is fashionable, he may be committed; but out of fashion, not conviction. The genius, of course, is largely indifferent to contemporary success; and his commitment to his ideals, both artistic and political, is profoundly, Byronically, indifferent to their contemporary popularity. <!-- no. 61

“I don’t think the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament has much chance of actually affecting the government. It’s one of the first things you have to face up to. But we do it to keep our self-respect to show to ourselves, each one to himself or herself, that we care.”

John Fowles книга The Collector

The Collector (1963)
Контексте: I don’t think the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament has much chance of actually affecting the government. It’s one of the first things you have to face up to. But we do it to keep our self-respect to show to ourselves, each one to himself or herself, that we care. And to let other people, all the lazy, sulky, hopeless ones like you, know that someone cares. We’re trying to shame you into thinking about it, about acting.

“We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.”

John Fowles книга The Collector

Источник: The Collector

“I am infinitely strange to myself.”

John Fowles книга The French Lieutenant's Woman

Источник: Charles to Sarah in Ch. 47, p. 340 note: The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969)

“It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live.”

John Fowles книга The French Lieutenant's Woman

Источник: The French Lieutenant's Woman

“The ordinary man is the curse of civilization.”

John Fowles книга The Collector

Источник: The Collector

“The dead live."
"How do they live?"
"By love.”

John Fowles книга The Magus

Источник: The Magus

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