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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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Like all mystics (and many novelists, not least the present one) he is baffled, a child, before the real now far happier out of it, in a narrative past or a prophetic future, locked inside that weird tence grammar does not allow, the imaginary present.
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Ask me to marry you. Will you marry me? No.
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All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one.
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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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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 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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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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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 most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.
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The profoundest distances are never geographical.
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Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.
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Duty is but a pot. It holds whatever is put in it, from the greatest evil to the greatest good.
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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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Science disembodies art embodies.
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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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Being an atheist is a matter not of moral choice, but of human obligation.
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