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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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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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Always we try to put the wild in a cage.
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Ask me to marry you. Will you marry me? No.
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You wish to be liked. I wish simply to be. One day you will know what that means, perhaps. And you will smile. Not against me. But with me.
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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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To despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.
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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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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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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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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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Love is the mystery between two people, not the identity.
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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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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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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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Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.
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Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.
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That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.
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I do not plan my fiction any more than I normally plan woodland walks I follow the path that seems most promising at any given point, not some itinerary decided before entry.
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There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.
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Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.
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