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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
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Leigh-on-Sea
Essex
Skin
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Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.
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I knew words were like chains, they held me back . . . the act of description taints the description.
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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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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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