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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
Essayist
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Essex
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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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Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.
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The practise of an art is essential to the whole man, not because of what art is but because of what art does to the artist.
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I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope - an impotence, in short and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.
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Hazard has conditioned us to live in hazard. All our pleasures are dependent on it. Even though I arrange for a pleasure, and look forward to it, my eventual enjoyment of it is still a matter of hazard. Wherever time passes, there is hazard.
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Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.
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That's the trouble with provincial life. Everyone knows everyone and there is no mystery. No romance.
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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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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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Between skin and skin, there is only light.
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The dead live. How do they live? By love.
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We chase the reward, we get the reward and then we discover that the true reward is always the next reward. Buying pleasure is a false end.
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Stained glass, engraved glass, frosted glass give me plain glass.
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We all write poems it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
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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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There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.
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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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