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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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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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Stained glass, engraved glass, frosted glass give me plain glass.
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I am infinitely strange to myself.
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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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The great majority of modern third-person narration is I narration very thinly disguised.
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The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?
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And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did.
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If you want to be true to life, start lying about it
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Between skin and skin, there is only light.
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Content is a word unknown to life it is also a word unknown to man.
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Love is the mystery between two people, not the identity.
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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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Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.
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The American myth is of free will in its simple, primary sense. One can choose oneself and will oneself and this absurdly optimistic assumption so dominates the republic that it has bred all its gross social injustices.
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There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.
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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 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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To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.
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Ask me to marry you. Will you marry me? No.
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