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I am infinitely strange to myself.
John Fowles
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John Fowles
Age: 79 †
Born: 1926
Born: March 31
Died: 2005
Died: November 5
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He felt himself in suspension between the two worlds, the warm, neat civilization behind his back, the cool, dark mystery outside. We all write poems it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
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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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There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.
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The profoundest distances are never geographical.
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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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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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Always we try to put the wild in a cage.
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That's the trouble with provincial life. Everyone knows everyone and there is no mystery. No romance.
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If you want to be true to life, start lying about it
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He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal.
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Art is a statement of one in the face of all not a statement by one for the use of all.
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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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I knew words were like chains, they held me back . . . the act of description taints the description.
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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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You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven't any choice. But it's what you say that counts.
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All pasts are like poems one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them.
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There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.
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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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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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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.
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