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When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies

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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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It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live.
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The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?
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Always we try to put the wild in a cage.
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I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope - an impotence, in short and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.
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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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There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.
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Ask me to marry you. Will you marry me? No.
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Stained glass, engraved glass, frosted glass give me plain glass.
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If you want to be true to life, start lying about it
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There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.
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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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Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.
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And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did.
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Between skin and skin, there is only light.
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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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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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