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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
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John Fowles
Age: 79 †
Born: 1926
Born: March 31
Died: 2005
Died: November 5
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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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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 only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live.
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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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Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.
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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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To despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.
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Science disembodies art embodies.
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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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Love is the mystery between two people, not the identity.
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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 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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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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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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To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.
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Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base-in both senses-greed.
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Content is a word unknown to life it is also a word unknown to man.
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The dead live. How do they live? By love.
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You come to the United States not knowing what to expect. Then all your worst prejudices are confirmed.
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