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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
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Leigh-on-Sea
Essex
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I am going to explain to you why we went to war. Why mankind always goes to war. It is not social or political. It is not countries that go to war, but men. It is like salt. Once one has been to war, one has salt for the rest of one's life. Do you understand?
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Wealth is a monster. It takes a month to learn to control it financially. And many years to learn to control it psychologically.
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It is not only species of animal that die out, but whole species of feeling. And if you are wise you will never pity the past for what it did not know, but pity yourself for what it did.
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That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.
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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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Between skin and skin, there is only light.
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These last few days I've felt Godless. I've felt cleaner, less muddled, less blind. I still believe in a God. But he's so remote, so cold, so mathematical. I see that we have to live as if there is no God. Prayer and worship and singing hymns-all silly and useless.
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There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.
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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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I knew words were like chains, they held me back . . . the act of description taints the description.
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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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The newspapers are full of what we would like to happen to us and what we hope will never happen to us.
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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.
John Fowles
We all write poems it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
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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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You come to the United States not knowing what to expect. Then all your worst prejudices are confirmed.
John Fowles
Stained glass, engraved glass, frosted glass give me plain glass.
John Fowles
All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one.
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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 want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.
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