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It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live.
John Fowles
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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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To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.
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Always we try to put the wild in a cage.
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It is not only species of animal that die out, but whole species of feeling. And if you are wise you will never pity the past for what it did not know, but pity yourself for what it did.
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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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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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Piers is always going on about how he hated Stowe. As if that solves everything, as if to hate something means it can't have affected you.
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