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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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Leigh-on-Sea
Essex
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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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It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live.
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One degrades oneself sometimes in the effort not to be lonely.
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Love is the mystery between two people, not the identity.
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That's the trouble with provincial life. Everyone knows everyone and there is no mystery. No romance.
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I have a strange illusion quite often. I think I've become deaf. I have to make a little noise to prove I'm not. I clear my throat to show myself that everything is normal. It's like the little Japanese girl they found in the ruins of Hiroshima. Everything dead and she was singing to her doll.
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You wish to be liked. I wish simply to be. One day you will know what that means, perhaps. And you will smile. Not against me. But with me.
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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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All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one.
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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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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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The dead live. How do they live? By love.
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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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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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