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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
Light
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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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We all write poems it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
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Which are you drinking? The water or the wave?
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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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He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal.
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Love is the mystery between two people, not the identity.
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Always we try to put the wild in a cage.
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The dead live. How do they live? By love.
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Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.
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All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one.
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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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All pasts are like poems one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them.
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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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I just think of things as beautiful or not. Can't you understand? I don't think of good or bad. Just of beautiful or ugly. I think a lot of nice things are ugly and a lot of nasty things are beautiful.
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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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Hazard has conditioned us to live in hazard. All our pleasures are dependent on it. Even though I arrange for a pleasure, and look forward to it, my eventual enjoyment of it is still a matter of hazard. Wherever time passes, there is hazard.
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And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did.
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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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If you want to be true to life, start lying about it
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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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