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Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.

John Fowles

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John Fowles
Age: 79 †
Born: 1926
Born: March 31
Died: 2005
Died: November 5
Essayist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Teacher
Writer
Leigh-on-Sea
Essex
Alive
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Science disembodies art embodies.
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The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.
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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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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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