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Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.
John Fowles
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John Fowles
Age: 79 †
Born: 1926
Born: March 31
Died: 2005
Died: November 5
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His statement to himself should have been, 'I possess this now, therefore I am happy', instead of what it so Victorianly was: I cannot possess this for ever, and therefore am sad.
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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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Being an atheist is a matter not of moral choice, but of human obligation.
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Each age, each guilty age, builds high walls around its Versailles and personally I hate those walls most when they are made by literature and art.
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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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All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one.
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One degrades oneself sometimes in the effort not to be lonely.
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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 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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Content is a word unknown to life it is also a word unknown to man.
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Thomas Beecham was a pompous little band-master who stood against everything creative in the art of his time.
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The profoundest distances are never geographical.
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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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You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven't any choice. But it's what you say that counts.
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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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We all write poems it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
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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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Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.
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The absurdly neurotic role you and the rest of your kind have always attributed to me Erato, the Goddess Muse of Erotic Poetry bears no relation at all to reality. As a matter of fact, I was trained as a clinical psychologist. Who simply happens to have specialized in the mental illness that you, in your ignorance, call literature.
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The dead live. How do they live? By love.
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