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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
Essayist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Teacher
Writer
Leigh-on-Sea
Essex
Dead
Live
Love

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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.
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When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies
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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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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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Science disembodies art embodies.
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Duty is but a pot. It holds whatever is put in it, from the greatest evil to the greatest good.
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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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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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The best wines take the longest to mature.
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One degrades oneself sometimes in the effort not to be lonely.
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Time is not a road - it is a room.
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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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He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal.
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Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.
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You wish to be liked. I wish simply to be. One day you will know what that means, perhaps. And you will smile. Not against me. But with me.
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The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?
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Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart.
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Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.
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Follow the accident, fear the fixed plan--that is the rule.
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Art is a statement of one in the face of all not a statement by one for the use of all.
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