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The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke. We're so weak physically, so helpless with things. Still, even today. But we're stronger than they are. We can stand their cruelty. They can't stand ours.
John Fowles
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John Fowles
Age: 79 †
Born: 1926
Born: March 31
Died: 2005
Died: November 5
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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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All pasts are like poems one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them.
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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's the trouble with provincial life. Everyone knows everyone and there is no mystery. No romance.
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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 great majority of modern third-person narration is I narration very thinly disguised.
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Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart.
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He is solid immovable, iron-willed. He showed me one day his killing bottle. I'm imprisoned in it. Fluttering against the glass. Because I can see through it I still think I can escape. I have hope. But it's all an illusion. A thick round wall of glass.
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When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies
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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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Just those three words, said and meant. I love you. They were quite hopeless. He said it as he might have said, I have cancer. His fairy story.
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If you want to be true to life, start lying about it
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Greece is like a mirror. It makes you suffer. Then you learn.' To live alone?' To live. With what you are.
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Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.
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Which are you drinking? The water or the wave?
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We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.
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Love is the mystery between two people, not the identity.
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To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.
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Stained glass, engraved glass, frosted glass give me plain glass.
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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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