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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
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Ask me to marry you. Will you marry me? No.
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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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Wealth is a monster. It takes a month to learn to control it financially. And many years to learn to control it psychologically.
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Follow the accident, fear the fixed plan--that is the rule.
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