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He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal.
John Fowles
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John Fowles
Age: 79 †
Born: 1926
Born: March 31
Died: 2005
Died: November 5
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These last few days I've felt Godless. I've felt cleaner, less muddled, less blind. I still believe in a God. But he's so remote, so cold, so mathematical. I see that we have to live as if there is no God. Prayer and worship and singing hymns-all silly and useless.
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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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She's always looking for poetry and passion and sensitivity, the whole Romantic kitchen. I live on a rather simpler diet.' 'Prose and pudding?''I don't expect attractive men necessarily to have attractive souls.
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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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The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.
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I just think of things as beautiful or not. Can't you understand? I don't think of good or bad. Just of beautiful or ugly. I think a lot of nice things are ugly and a lot of nasty things are beautiful.
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I knew I would always want to go on living with myself, however hollow I became, however diseased.
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We all write poems it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
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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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It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live.
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Follow the accident, fear the fixed plan--that is the rule.
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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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To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.
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Content is a word unknown to life it is also a word unknown to man.
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Art is a statement of one in the face of all not a statement by one for the use of all.
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Between skin and skin, there is only light.
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Always we try to put the wild in a cage.
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Love is the mystery between two people, not the identity.
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He felt himself in suspension between the two worlds, the warm, neat civilization behind his back, the cool, dark mystery outside. We all write poems it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
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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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