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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
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Content is a word unknown to life it is also a word unknown to man.
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Always we try to put the wild in a cage.
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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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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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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 most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.
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I just think of things as beautiful or not. Can't you understand? I don't think of good or bad. Just of beautiful or ugly. I think a lot of nice things are ugly and a lot of nasty things are beautiful.
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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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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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Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.
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Between skin and skin, there is only light.
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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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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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There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.
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I knew words were like chains, they held me back . . . the act of description taints the description.
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There are some men who are consoled by the idea that there are women less attractive than their wives and others who are haunted by the knowledge that there are more attractive.
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The absurdly neurotic role you and the rest of your kind have always attributed to me Erato, the Goddess Muse of Erotic Poetry bears no relation at all to reality. As a matter of fact, I was trained as a clinical psychologist. Who simply happens to have specialized in the mental illness that you, in your ignorance, call literature.
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