Piers is always going on about how he hated Stowe. As if that solves everything, as if to hate something means it can't have affected you. - John Fowles

As if that solves everything, as if to hate something means it can't have affected you.

By this characteristically twentieth century retreat from content into form, from meaning into appearance, from ethics into aesthetics, from aqua into unda, I dulled the pain of accusing death, and hardened myself.

There was a bright wind, it was a Dufy day, all bustle, movement, animated colour..

I think he was a little like the lizard that changes color with its surroundings. He appeared far more a gentleman in a gentleman's house. In that inn, I saw him for what he was. And I knew his color there was far more natural than the other.