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The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.
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 profoundest distances are never geographical.
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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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Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society.
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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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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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It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live.
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Ask me to marry you. Will you marry me? No.
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You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven't any choice. But it's what you say that counts.
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We talked for hours. He talked and I listened. It was like wind and sunlight. It blew all the cobwebs away.
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Content is a word unknown to life it is also a word unknown to man.
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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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To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.
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The dead live. How do they live? By love.
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It is not only species of animal that die out, but whole species of feeling. And if you are wise you will never pity the past for what it did not know, but pity yourself for what it did.
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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 hate the uneducated and the ignorant. I hate the pompous and the phoney. I hate the jealous and the resentful. I hate the crabbed and mean and the petty. I hate all ordinary dull little people who aren't ashamed of being dull and little.
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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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