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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.
John Fowles
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John Fowles
Age: 79 †
Born: 1926
Born: March 31
Died: 2005
Died: November 5
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Leigh-on-Sea
Essex
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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.
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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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That's the trouble with provincial life. Everyone knows everyone and there is no mystery. No romance.
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Which are you drinking? The water or the wave?
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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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Ask me to marry you. Will you marry me? No.
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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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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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Being an atheist is a matter not of moral choice, but of human obligation.
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We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.
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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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All pasts are like poems one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them.
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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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Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.
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Content is a word unknown to life it is also a word unknown to man.
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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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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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