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Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart.
John Fowles
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John Fowles
Age: 79 †
Born: 1926
Born: March 31
Died: 2005
Died: November 5
Essayist
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Leigh-on-Sea
Essex
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Inmost
Heart
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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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And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did.
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Art is a statement of one in the face of all not a statement by one for the use of all.
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Our knowledge of what the richer than ourselves possess, and the poor do not, has never been more widespread. Therefore, envy, which is wanting what others have, and jealousy, which is not wanting others to have what one has, have never been more widespread.
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