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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.
John Fowles
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John Fowles
Age: 79 †
Born: 1926
Born: March 31
Died: 2005
Died: November 5
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More quotes by John Fowles
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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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 novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one.
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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.
John Fowles
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.
John Fowles
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 are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.
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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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That's the trouble with provincial life. Everyone knows everyone and there is no mystery. No romance.
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There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.
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I knew I would always want to go on living with myself, however hollow I became, however diseased.
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I knew words were like chains, they held me back . . . the act of description taints the description.
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I am going to explain to you why we went to war. Why mankind always goes to war. It is not social or political. It is not countries that go to war, but men. It is like salt. Once one has been to war, one has salt for the rest of one's life. Do you understand?
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These last few days I've felt Godless. I've felt cleaner, less muddled, less blind. I still believe in a God. But he's so remote, so cold, so mathematical. I see that we have to live as if there is no God. Prayer and worship and singing hymns-all silly and useless.
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Stained glass, engraved glass, frosted glass give me plain glass.
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We all write poems it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
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The best wines take the longest to mature.
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To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.
John Fowles
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.
John Fowles
Greece is like a mirror. It makes you suffer. Then you learn.' To live alone?' To live. With what you are.
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