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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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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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He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal.
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If you want to be true to life, start lying about it
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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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There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.
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To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.
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I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart.
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I knew I would always want to go on living with myself, however hollow I became, however diseased.
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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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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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Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.
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I knew words were like chains, they held me back . . . the act of description taints the description.
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