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Between skin and skin, there is only light.

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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
Skin
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She's always looking for poetry and passion and sensitivity, the whole Romantic kitchen. I live on a rather simpler diet.' 'Prose and pudding?''I don't expect attractive men necessarily to have attractive souls.
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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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I hate the uneducated and the ignorant. I hate the pompous and the phoney. I hate the jealous and the resentful. I hate the crabbed and mean and the petty. I hate all ordinary dull little people who aren't ashamed of being dull and little.
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The practise of an art is essential to the whole man, not because of what art is but because of what art does to the artist.
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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 pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.
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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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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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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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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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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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And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did.
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Being an atheist is a matter not of moral choice, but of human obligation.
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