It came to meโฆthat I didnโt want to be anywhere else in the world at that moment, that what I was feeling at that moment justified all I had been through, because all I had been through was my being there. I was experiencingโฆa new self-acceptance, a sense that I had to be this mind and this body, its vices and its virtues, and that I had no other chance or choice.
John FowlesWe chase the reward, we get the reward and then we discover that the true reward is always the next reward. Buying pleasure is a false end.
John FowlesThomas Beecham was a pompous little band-master who stood against everything creative in the art of his time.
John FowlesI read and I read; and I was like a medieval king, I had fallen in love with the picture long before I saw the reality.
John Fowles