An easterly is the most disagreeable wind in Lyme Bay โ Lyme Bay being that largest bite from the underside of England's outstretched southwestern leg โ and a person of curiosity could at once have deduced several strong probabilities about the pair who began to walk down the quay at Lyme Regis, the small but ancient eponym of the inbite, one incisively sharp and blustery morning in the late March of 1867.
John FowlesWe talked for hours. He talked and I listened. It was like wind and sunlight. It blew all the cobwebs away.
John FowlesI think we are just insects, we live a bit and then die and thatโs the lot. Thereโs no mercy in things. Thereโs not even a Great Beyond. Thereโs nothing.
John FowlesShe's always looking for poetry and passion and sensitivity, the whole Romantic kitchen. I live on a rather simpler diet.' 'Prose and pudding?''I don't expect attractive men necessarily to have attractive souls.
John FowlesOur present educational systems are all paramilitary. Their aim is to produce servants or soldiers who obey without question and who accepts their training as the best possible training. Those who are most successful in the state are those who have the most interest in prolonging the state as it is; they are also those who have the most say in the educational system, and in particular by ensuring that the educational product they want is the most highly rewarded.
John Fowles