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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
Death
Way
Alive

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The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke. We're so weak physically, so helpless with things. Still, even today. But we're stronger than they are. We can stand their cruelty. They can't stand ours.
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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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We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.
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Time is not a road - it is a room.
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Another reason I think the novel will survive is that the reader has to work in a novel. In a film, you are presented with someone else's imagination exactly bodied out. The marvelous thing about a novel is that every reader will imagine even the very simplest sentence slightly differently.
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Science disembodies art embodies.
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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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The profoundest distances are never geographical.
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Which are you drinking? The water or the wave?
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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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The dead live. How do they live? By love.
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When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies
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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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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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There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.
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Being an atheist is a matter not of moral choice, but of human obligation.
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He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal.
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There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.
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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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Content is a word unknown to life it is also a word unknown to man.
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