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The dead live. How do they live? By love.

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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
Love
Dead
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We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.
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And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did.
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Always we try to put the wild in a cage.
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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.
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Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.
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Wealth is a monster. It takes a month to learn to control it financially. And many years to learn to control it psychologically.
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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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When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies
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