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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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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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I knew I would always want to go on living with myself, however hollow I became, however diseased.
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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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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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The dead live. How do they live? By love.
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Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.
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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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When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies
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Duty is but a pot. It holds whatever is put in it, from the greatest evil to the greatest good.
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Between skin and skin, there is only light.
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If you want to be true to life, start lying about it
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And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did.
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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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