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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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Essex
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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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It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live.
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The profoundest distances are never geographical.
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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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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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The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.
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I knew I would always want to go on living with myself, however hollow I became, however diseased.
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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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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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I am infinitely strange to myself.
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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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Being an atheist is a matter not of moral choice, but of human obligation.
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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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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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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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All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one.
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Another reason I think the novel will survive is that the reader has to work in a novel. In a film, you are presented with someone else's imagination exactly bodied out. The marvelous thing about a novel is that every reader will imagine even the very simplest sentence slightly differently.
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Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.
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Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.
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