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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 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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The best wines take the longest to mature.
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One degrades oneself sometimes in the effort not to be lonely.
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Being an atheist is a matter not of moral choice, but of human obligation.
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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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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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Just those three words, said and meant. I love you. They were quite hopeless. He said it as he might have said, I have cancer. His fairy story.
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Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.
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Greece is like a mirror. It makes you suffer. Then you learn.' To live alone?' To live. With what you are.
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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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It is not only species of animal that die out, but whole species of feeling. And if you are wise you will never pity the past for what it did not know, but pity yourself for what it did.
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There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.
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Time is not a road - it is a room.
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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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Our knowledge of what the richer than ourselves possess, and the poor do not, has never been more widespread. Therefore, envy, which is wanting what others have, and jealousy, which is not wanting others to have what one has, have never been more widespread.
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I knew I would always want to go on living with myself, however hollow I became, however diseased.
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My hatred of crowds, the obviousness of crowds, of anything en masse. Is this why I like little-known books? A general desire to escape the main world.
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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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All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one.
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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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