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To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.
John Fowles
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John Fowles
Age: 79 †
Born: 1926
Born: March 31
Died: 2005
Died: November 5
Essayist
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Leigh-on-Sea
Essex
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Poetry
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Writing
Contradictory
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Escape
Suicide
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When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies
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I hate the uneducated and the ignorant. I hate the pompous and the phoney. I hate the jealous and the resentful. I hate the crabbed and mean and the petty. I hate all ordinary dull little people who aren't ashamed of being dull and little.
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His statement to himself should have been, 'I possess this now, therefore I am happy', instead of what it so Victorianly was: I cannot possess this for ever, and therefore am sad.
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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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Always we try to put the wild in a cage.
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Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.
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There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.
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There are some men who are consoled by the idea that there are women less attractive than their wives and others who are haunted by the knowledge that there are more attractive.
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The best wines take the longest to mature.
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She's always looking for poetry and passion and sensitivity, the whole Romantic kitchen. I live on a rather simpler diet.' 'Prose and pudding?''I don't expect attractive men necessarily to have attractive souls.
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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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Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society.
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The dead live. How do they live? By love.
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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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Just those three words, said and meant. I love you. They were quite hopeless. He said it as he might have said, I have cancer. His fairy story.
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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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One degrades oneself sometimes in the effort not to be lonely.
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I am infinitely strange to myself.
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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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