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Why should I struggle through hundreds of pages of fabrication to reach half a dozen very little truths?' 'For fun?' 'Fun!' He pounced on the word. 'Words are for truth. For facts. Not fiction.
— John Fowles The Magus
Tags: truth, irony, fiction

Other Quotes by "John Fowles"

To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.
— John Fowles The Magus
Tags: suicide, poetry, escape
Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.
— John Fowles
Tags: our, must, being, always
The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.
— John Fowles
Tags: most, questions, important, never, life
There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not anymore what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.
— John Fowles
Tags: yourself, time, you, life
I don't think the English like me. I sold a colossal best seller in America, and they never really forgave me.
— John Fowles
Tags: never, think, me, best
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