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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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Piers is always going on about how he hated Stowe. As if that solves everything, as if to hate something means it can't have affected you.
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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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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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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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Thomas Beecham was a pompous little band-master who stood against everything creative in the art of his time.
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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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There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.
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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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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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Between skin and skin, there is only light.
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There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.
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To despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.
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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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One degrades oneself sometimes in the effort not to be lonely.
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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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She's always looking for poetry and passion and sensitivity, the whole Romantic kitchen. I live on a rather simpler diet.' 'Prose and pudding?''I don't expect attractive men necessarily to have attractive souls.
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To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.
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I am infinitely strange to myself.
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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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