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We all write poems it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

John Fowles

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John Fowles
Age: 79 †
Born: 1926
Born: March 31
Died: 2005
Died: November 5
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Essex
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He felt himself in suspension between the two worlds, the warm, neat civilization behind his back, the cool, dark mystery outside. We all write poems it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
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There are some men who are consoled by the idea that there are women less attractive than their wives and others who are haunted by the knowledge that there are more attractive.
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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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Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.
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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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All pasts are like poems one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them.
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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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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 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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There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.
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When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies
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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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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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Time is not a road - it is a room.
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The newspapers are full of what we would like to happen to us and what we hope will never happen to us.
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I am infinitely strange to myself.
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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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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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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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He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal.
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