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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
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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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Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart.
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If a person is intelligent, then of course he is either an agnostic or an atheist. Just as he is a physical coward. They are automatic definitions of high intelligence.
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Ask me to marry you. Will you marry me? No.
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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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Each age, each guilty age, builds high walls around its Versailles and personally I hate those walls most when they are made by literature and art.
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His statement to himself should have been, 'I possess this now, therefore I am happy', instead of what it so Victorianly was: I cannot possess this for ever, and therefore am sad.
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Time is not a road - it is a room.
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Duty is but a pot. It holds whatever is put in it, from the greatest evil to the greatest good.
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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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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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That's the trouble with provincial life. Everyone knows everyone and there is no mystery. No romance.
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Stained glass, engraved glass, frosted glass give me plain glass.
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I am going to explain to you why we went to war. Why mankind always goes to war. It is not social or political. It is not countries that go to war, but men. It is like salt. Once one has been to war, one has salt for the rest of one's life. Do you understand?
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All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one.
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The absurdly neurotic role you and the rest of your kind have always attributed to me Erato, the Goddess Muse of Erotic Poetry bears no relation at all to reality. As a matter of fact, I was trained as a clinical psychologist. Who simply happens to have specialized in the mental illness that you, in your ignorance, call literature.
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The best wines take the longest to mature.
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If you want to be true to life, start lying about it
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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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