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When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies
John Fowles
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John Fowles
Age: 79 †
Born: 1926
Born: March 31
Died: 2005
Died: November 5
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Science disembodies art embodies.
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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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If you want to be true to life, start lying about it
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The American myth is of free will in its simple, primary sense. One can choose oneself and will oneself and this absurdly optimistic assumption so dominates the republic that it has bred all its gross social injustices.
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To despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.
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If you forget everything else about me, please remember this. I walked down that street and I never looked back and I love you. I love you. I love you so much that I shall hate you for ever for today.
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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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And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did.
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All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one.
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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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Wealth is a monster. It takes a month to learn to control it financially. And many years to learn to control it psychologically.
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There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.
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The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke. We're so weak physically, so helpless with things. Still, even today. But we're stronger than they are. We can stand their cruelty. They can't stand ours.
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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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All pasts are like poems one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them.
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That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.
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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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I am infinitely strange to myself.
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Just those three words, said and meant. I love you. They were quite hopeless. He said it as he might have said, I have cancer. His fairy story.
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