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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.
John Fowles
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John Fowles
Age: 79 †
Born: 1926
Born: March 31
Died: 2005
Died: November 5
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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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Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society.
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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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That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.
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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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You come to the United States not knowing what to expect. Then all your worst prejudices are confirmed.
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Like all mystics (and many novelists, not least the present one) he is baffled, a child, before the real now far happier out of it, in a narrative past or a prophetic future, locked inside that weird tence grammar does not allow, the imaginary present.
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One degrades oneself sometimes in the effort not to be lonely.
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I have a strange illusion quite often. I think I've become deaf. I have to make a little noise to prove I'm not. I clear my throat to show myself that everything is normal. It's like the little Japanese girl they found in the ruins of Hiroshima. Everything dead and she was singing to her doll.
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