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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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Leigh-on-Sea
Essex
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One degrades oneself sometimes in the effort not to be lonely.
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The diary will really try and tell people who you are and what you were. The alternative is writing nothing, or creating a totally lifeless, as it is leafless, garden.
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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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Being an atheist is a matter not of moral choice, but of human obligation.
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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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To despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.
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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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Follow the accident, fear the fixed plan--that is the rule.
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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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Love is the mystery between two people, not the identity.
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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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I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope - an impotence, in short and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.
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Greece is like a mirror. It makes you suffer. Then you learn.' To live alone?' To live. With what you are.
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When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies
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The great majority of modern third-person narration is I narration very thinly disguised.
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The best wines take the longest to mature.
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Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.
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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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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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I am infinitely strange to myself.
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