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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
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Piers is always going on about how he hated Stowe. As if that solves everything, as if to hate something means it can't have affected you.
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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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Duty is but a pot. It holds whatever is put in it, from the greatest evil to the greatest good.
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To despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.
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We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.
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I am one in a row of specimens. It's when I try to flutter out of line that he hates me. I'm meant to be dead, pinned, always the same, always beautiful. He knows that part of my beauty is being alive. but it's the dead me he wants. He wants me living-but-dead.
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When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies
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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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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.
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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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Love is the mystery between two people, not the identity.
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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.
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And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did.
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We talked for hours. He talked and I listened. It was like wind and sunlight. It blew all the cobwebs away.
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We all write poems it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
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Our knowledge of what the richer than ourselves possess, and the poor do not, has never been more widespread. Therefore, envy, which is wanting what others have, and jealousy, which is not wanting others to have what one has, have never been more widespread.
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The best wines take the longest to mature.
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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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If a person is intelligent, then of course he is either an agnostic or an atheist. Just as he is a physical coward. They are automatic definitions of high intelligence.
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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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