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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.

John Fowles

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John Fowles
Age: 79 †
Born: 1926
Born: March 31
Died: 2005
Died: November 5
Essayist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Teacher
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Leigh-on-Sea
Essex
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Each age, each guilty age, builds high walls around its Versailles and personally I hate those walls most when they are made by literature and art.
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I think we are just insects, we live a bit and then die and that’s the lot. There’s no mercy in things. There’s not even a Great Beyond. There’s nothing.
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Always we try to put the wild in a cage.
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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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Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.
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I read and I read and I was like a medieval king, I had fallen in love with the picture long before I saw the reality.
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Time is not a road - it is a room.
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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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Thomas Beecham was a pompous little band-master who stood against everything creative in the art of his time.
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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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I knew words were like chains, they held me back . . . the act of description taints the description.
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Duty is but a pot. It holds whatever is put in it, from the greatest evil to the greatest good.
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And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did.
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The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.
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There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.
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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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The great majority of modern third-person narration is I narration very thinly disguised.
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When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies
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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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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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