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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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Screenwriter
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Essex
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All pasts are like poems one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them.
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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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I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope - an impotence, in short and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.
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Follow the accident, fear the fixed plan--that is the rule.
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