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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
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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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I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart.
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Art is a statement of one in the face of all not a statement by one for the use of all.
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One degrades oneself sometimes in the effort not to be lonely.
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That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.
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You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven't any choice. But it's what you say that counts.
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Time is not a road - it is a room.
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I do not plan my fiction any more than I normally plan woodland walks I follow the path that seems most promising at any given point, not some itinerary decided before entry.
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Between skin and skin, there is only light.
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Which are you drinking? The water or the wave?
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If you want to be true to life, start lying about it
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Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.
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If you forget everything else about me, please remember this. I walked down that street and I never looked back and I love you. I love you. I love you so much that I shall hate you for ever for today.
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It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live.
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Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.
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I think we are just insects, we live a bit and then die and that’s the lot. There’s no mercy in things. There’s not even a Great Beyond. There’s nothing.
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We talked for hours. He talked and I listened. It was like wind and sunlight. It blew all the cobwebs away.
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Content is a word unknown to life it is also a word unknown to man.
John Fowles
Wealth is a monster. It takes a month to learn to control it financially. And many years to learn to control it psychologically.
John Fowles
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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