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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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Content is a word unknown to life it is also a word unknown to man.
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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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All pasts are like poems one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them.
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Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base-in both senses-greed.
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You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven't any choice. But it's what you say that counts.
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