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I think we are just insects, we live a bit and then die and that’s the lot. There’s no mercy in things. There’s not even a Great Beyond. There’s nothing.
John Fowles
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John Fowles
Age: 79 †
Born: 1926
Born: March 31
Died: 2005
Died: November 5
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My hatred of crowds, the obviousness of crowds, of anything en masse. Is this why I like little-known books? A general desire to escape the main world.
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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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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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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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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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Between skin and skin, there is only light.
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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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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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The American myth is of free will in its simple, primary sense. One can choose oneself and will oneself and this absurdly optimistic assumption so dominates the republic that it has bred all its gross social injustices.
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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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I knew words were like chains, they held me back . . . the act of description taints the description.
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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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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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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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We all write poems it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
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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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