John Fowles Quotes


I hate the uneducated and the ignorant. I hate the pompous and the phoney. I hate the jealous and the resentful. I hate the crabbed and mean and the petty. I hate all ordinary dull little people who aren't ashamed of being dull and little.


Citations

Fowles, John. The Collector. Little, Brown, 1963.

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John Fowles
John Fowles
  • Born: March 31, 1926
  • Died: November 5, 2005
  • Nationality: English
  • Profession: Writer, Teacher

John Robert Fowles was an English novelist of international renown, critically positioned between modernism and postmodernism. His work was influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, among others.