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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
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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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We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.
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Each age, each guilty age, builds high walls around its Versailles and personally I hate those walls most when they are made by literature and art.
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The newspapers are full of what we would like to happen to us and what we hope will never happen to us.
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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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His statement to himself should have been, 'I possess this now, therefore I am happy', instead of what it so Victorianly was: I cannot possess this for ever, and therefore am sad.
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The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.
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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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We all write poems it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
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I read and I read and I was like a medieval king, I had fallen in love with the picture long before I saw the reality.
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Like all mystics (and many novelists, not least the present one) he is baffled, a child, before the real now far happier out of it, in a narrative past or a prophetic future, locked inside that weird tence grammar does not allow, the imaginary present.
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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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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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I hate the uneducated and the ignorant. I hate the pompous and the phoney. I hate the jealous and the resentful. I hate the crabbed and mean and the petty. I hate all ordinary dull little people who aren't ashamed of being dull and little.
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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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There are some men who are consoled by the idea that there are women less attractive than their wives and others who are haunted by the knowledge that there are more attractive.
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