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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
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Leigh-on-Sea
Essex
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And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did.
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I do not plan my fiction any more than I normally plan woodland walks I follow the path that seems most promising at any given point, not some itinerary decided before entry.
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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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The best wines take the longest to mature.
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All pasts are like poems one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them.
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We talked for hours. He talked and I listened. It was like wind and sunlight. It blew all the cobwebs away.
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Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.
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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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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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There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.
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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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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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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 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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I think we are just insects, we live a bit and then die and that’s the lot. There’s no mercy in things. There’s not even a Great Beyond. There’s nothing.
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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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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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