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The dead live. How do they live? By love.
John Fowles
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John Fowles
Age: 79 †
Born: 1926
Born: March 31
Died: 2005
Died: November 5
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Leigh-on-Sea
Essex
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More quotes by John Fowles
If you forget everything else about me, please remember this. I walked down that street and I never looked back and I love you. I love you. I love you so much that I shall hate you for ever for today.
John Fowles
Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.
John Fowles
It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live.
John Fowles
There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.
John Fowles
We chase the reward, we get the reward and then we discover that the true reward is always the next reward. Buying pleasure is a false end.
John Fowles
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.
John Fowles
The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?
John Fowles
Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.
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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We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.
John Fowles
All pasts are like poems one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them.
John Fowles
The diary will really try and tell people who you are and what you were. The alternative is writing nothing, or creating a totally lifeless, as it is leafless, garden.
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One degrades oneself sometimes in the effort not to be lonely.
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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.
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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I knew words were like chains, they held me back . . . the act of description taints the description.
John Fowles
The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.
John Fowles
Science disembodies art embodies.
John Fowles
I just think of things as beautiful or not. Can't you understand? I don't think of good or bad. Just of beautiful or ugly. I think a lot of nice things are ugly and a lot of nasty things are beautiful.
John Fowles
Hazard has conditioned us to live in hazard. All our pleasures are dependent on it. Even though I arrange for a pleasure, and look forward to it, my eventual enjoyment of it is still a matter of hazard. Wherever time passes, there is hazard.
John Fowles