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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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John Fowles
Age: 79 †
Born: 1926
Born: March 31
Died: 2005
Died: November 5
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Content is a word unknown to life it is also a word unknown to man.
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All pasts are like poems one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them.
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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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My hatred of crowds, the obviousness of crowds, of anything en masse. Is this why I like little-known books? A general desire to escape the main world.
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Love is the mystery between two people, not the identity.
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The profoundest distances are never geographical.
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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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To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.
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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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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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I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart.
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Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.
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I knew words were like chains, they held me back . . . the act of description taints the description.
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Greece is like a mirror. It makes you suffer. Then you learn.' To live alone?' To live. With what you are.
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Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.
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I think we are just insects, we live a bit and then die and that’s the lot. There’s no mercy in things. There’s not even a Great Beyond. There’s nothing.
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Follow the accident, fear the fixed plan--that is the rule.
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