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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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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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Ask me to marry you. Will you marry me? No.
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I am infinitely strange to myself.
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To despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.
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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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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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When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies
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Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society.
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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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The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke. We're so weak physically, so helpless with things. Still, even today. But we're stronger than they are. We can stand their cruelty. They can't stand ours.
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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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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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The profoundest distances are never geographical.
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The absurdly neurotic role you and the rest of your kind have always attributed to me Erato, the Goddess Muse of Erotic Poetry bears no relation at all to reality. As a matter of fact, I was trained as a clinical psychologist. Who simply happens to have specialized in the mental illness that you, in your ignorance, call literature.
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There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.
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Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.
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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 are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.
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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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Stained glass, engraved glass, frosted glass give me plain glass.
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