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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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John Fowles
Age: 79 †
Born: 1926
Born: March 31
Died: 2005
Died: November 5
Essayist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Teacher
Writer
Leigh-on-Sea
Essex
Everything
Heart
Love
Copying
Life
Watching
Sitting
Dead
Full
Making

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