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There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.
John Fowles
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John Fowles
Age: 79 †
Born: 1926
Born: March 31
Died: 2005
Died: November 5
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I hate the uneducated and the ignorant. I hate the pompous and the phoney. I hate the jealous and the resentful. I hate the crabbed and mean and the petty. I hate all ordinary dull little people who aren't ashamed of being dull and little.
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We all write poems it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
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The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?
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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 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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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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If you want to be true to life, start lying about it
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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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Always we try to put the wild in a cage.
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All pasts are like poems one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them.
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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 great majority of modern third-person narration is I narration very thinly disguised.
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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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There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.
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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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Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.
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I knew words were like chains, they held me back . . . the act of description taints the description.
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I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope - an impotence, in short and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.
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Content is a word unknown to life it is also a word unknown to man.
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We chase the reward, we get the reward and then we discover that the true reward is always the next reward. Buying pleasure is a false end.
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