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I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope - an impotence, in short and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.
John Fowles
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John Fowles
Age: 79 †
Born: 1926
Born: March 31
Died: 2005
Died: November 5
Essayist
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Leigh-on-Sea
Essex
Despise
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Failure
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Masks
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Impotence
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Cynicism
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I am one in a row of specimens. It's when I try to flutter out of line that he hates me. I'm meant to be dead, pinned, always the same, always beautiful. He knows that part of my beauty is being alive. but it's the dead me he wants. He wants me living-but-dead.
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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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The best wines take the longest to mature.
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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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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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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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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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Love is the mystery between two people, not the identity.
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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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When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies
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Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.
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Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.
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All pasts are like poems one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them.
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The newspapers are full of what we would like to happen to us and what we hope will never happen to us.
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Content is a word unknown to life it is also a word unknown to man.
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Time is not a road - it is a room.
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If a person is intelligent, then of course he is either an agnostic or an atheist. Just as he is a physical coward. They are automatic definitions of high intelligence.
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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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Always we try to put the wild in a cage.
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