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Between skin and skin, there is only light.

John Fowles

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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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Another reason I think the novel will survive is that the reader has to work in a novel. In a film, you are presented with someone else's imagination exactly bodied out. The marvelous thing about a novel is that every reader will imagine even the very simplest sentence slightly differently.
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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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You wish to be liked. I wish simply to be. One day you will know what that means, perhaps. And you will smile. Not against me. But with me.
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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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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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Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society.
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We all write poems it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
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Our knowledge of what the richer than ourselves possess, and the poor do not, has never been more widespread. Therefore, envy, which is wanting what others have, and jealousy, which is not wanting others to have what one has, have never been more widespread.
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We chase the reward, we get the reward and then we discover that the true reward is always the next reward. Buying pleasure is a false end.
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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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When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies
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We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.
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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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The profoundest distances are never geographical.
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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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There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.
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He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal.
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And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did.
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Science disembodies art embodies.
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The diary will really try and tell people who you are and what you were. The alternative is writing nothing, or creating a totally lifeless, as it is leafless, garden.
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