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Quotes from The Magus — John Fowles

1926–2005 England

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It must essentially remain a novel of adolescence written by a retarded adolescent.

The Magus (1965)

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

The Magus (1965)

There’s a card in the Tarot pack called The Magus. The magician, conjuror. Two of his traditional symbols are the lily and the rose.

The Magus (1965)

If a person is intelligent, then of course he is either an agnostic or an atheist. Just as he is a physical coward. They are automatic definitions of high intelligence.

The Magus (1965)

That is the truth. Not the hammer and sickle. Not the stars and stripes. Not the cross. Not the sun. Not gold. Not yin and yang. But the smile.

The Magus (1965)

The mess of my life, the selfishnesses and false turnings and the treacheries, all these things could fall into place, they could become a source of construction rather than a source of chaos, and precisely because I had no other choice.

The Magus (1965)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Fowles (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.