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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
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My hatred of crowds, the obviousness of crowds, of anything en masse. Is this why I like little-known books? A general desire to escape the main world.
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Content is a word unknown to life it is also a word unknown to man.
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All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one.
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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 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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I am one in a row of specimens. It's when I try to flutter out of line that he hates me. I'm meant to be dead, pinned, always the same, always beautiful. He knows that part of my beauty is being alive. but it's the dead me he wants. He wants me living-but-dead.
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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 dead live. How do they live? By love.
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I am going to explain to you why we went to war. Why mankind always goes to war. It is not social or political. It is not countries that go to war, but men. It is like salt. Once one has been to war, one has salt for the rest of one's life. Do you understand?
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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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He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal.
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These last few days I've felt Godless. I've felt cleaner, less muddled, less blind. I still believe in a God. But he's so remote, so cold, so mathematical. I see that we have to live as if there is no God. Prayer and worship and singing hymns-all silly and useless.
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The best wines take the longest to mature.
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There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.
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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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And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did.
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When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies
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All pasts are like poems one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them.
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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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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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