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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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The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.
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Each age, each guilty age, builds high walls around its Versailles and personally I hate those walls most when they are made by literature and art.
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He is solid immovable, iron-willed. He showed me one day his killing bottle. I'm imprisoned in it. Fluttering against the glass. Because I can see through it I still think I can escape. I have hope. But it's all an illusion. A thick round wall of glass.
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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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There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.
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Duty is but a pot. It holds whatever is put in it, from the greatest evil to the greatest good.
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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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It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live.
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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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Science disembodies art embodies.
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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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One degrades oneself sometimes in the effort not to be lonely.
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I am infinitely strange to myself.
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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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Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.
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Content is a word unknown to life it is also a word unknown to man.
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Which are you drinking? The water or the wave?
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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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The profoundest distances are never geographical.
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