# Quote — John Fowles, The Collector

> I know what I am to him. A butterfly he has always wanted to catch. I remember (the very first time I met him) G.P. saying that collectors were the worst animals of all. He meant art collectors, of course. I didn’t really understand, I thought he was just trying to shock Caroline — and me. But of course, he is right. They’re anti-life, anti-art, anti-everything.

- Author: [John Fowles](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-fowles.md)
- Book: [The Collector](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-fowles/the-collector.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-fowles/the-collector/i-know-what

## More from this book

> Everything free and decent in life is being locked away in filthy little cellars by beastly people who don’t care.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-fowles/the-collector/everything-free-and.md)

> I don’t think the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament has much chance of actually affecting the government. It’s one of the first things you have to face up to. But we do it to keep our self-respect to show to ourselves, each one to himself or herself, that we care. And to let other people, all the lazy, sulky, hopeless ones like you, know that someone cares. We’re trying to shame you into thinking about it, about acting.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-fowles/the-collector/i-dont-think.md)

> He’s so slow, so unimaginative, so lifeless. Like zinc white. I see it’s a sort of tyranny he has over me. He forces me to be changeable, to act. To show off. The hateful tyranny of weak people.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-fowles/the-collector/hes-so-slow.md)