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The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.
John Fowles
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John Fowles
Age: 79 †
Born: 1926
Born: March 31
Died: 2005
Died: November 5
Essayist
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Screenwriter
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Leigh-on-Sea
Essex
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His statement to himself should have been, 'I possess this now, therefore I am happy', instead of what it so Victorianly was: I cannot possess this for ever, and therefore am sad.
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There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.
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Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base-in both senses-greed.
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The American myth is of free will in its simple, primary sense. One can choose oneself and will oneself and this absurdly optimistic assumption so dominates the republic that it has bred all its gross social injustices.
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The practise of an art is essential to the whole man, not because of what art is but because of what art does to the artist.
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Wealth is a monster. It takes a month to learn to control it financially. And many years to learn to control it psychologically.
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I read and I read and I was like a medieval king, I had fallen in love with the picture long before I saw the reality.
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Hazard has conditioned us to live in hazard. All our pleasures are dependent on it. Even though I arrange for a pleasure, and look forward to it, my eventual enjoyment of it is still a matter of hazard. Wherever time passes, there is hazard.
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The absurdly neurotic role you and the rest of your kind have always attributed to me Erato, the Goddess Muse of Erotic Poetry bears no relation at all to reality. As a matter of fact, I was trained as a clinical psychologist. Who simply happens to have specialized in the mental illness that you, in your ignorance, call literature.
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Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart.
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I am infinitely strange to myself.
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Duty is but a pot. It holds whatever is put in it, from the greatest evil to the greatest good.
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Each age, each guilty age, builds high walls around its Versailles and personally I hate those walls most when they are made by literature and art.
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Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.
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Which are you drinking? The water or the wave?
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You come to the United States not knowing what to expect. Then all your worst prejudices are confirmed.
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Another reason I think the novel will survive is that the reader has to work in a novel. In a film, you are presented with someone else's imagination exactly bodied out. The marvelous thing about a novel is that every reader will imagine even the very simplest sentence slightly differently.
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The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke. We're so weak physically, so helpless with things. Still, even today. But we're stronger than they are. We can stand their cruelty. They can't stand ours.
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Thomas Beecham was a pompous little band-master who stood against everything creative in the art of his time.
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Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.
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