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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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Haven
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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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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 have a strange illusion quite often. I think I've become deaf. I have to make a little noise to prove I'm not. I clear my throat to show myself that everything is normal. It's like the little Japanese girl they found in the ruins of Hiroshima. Everything dead and she was singing to her doll.
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Follow the accident, fear the fixed plan--that is the rule.
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I hate the uneducated and the ignorant. I hate the pompous and the phoney. I hate the jealous and the resentful. I hate the crabbed and mean and the petty. I hate all ordinary dull little people who aren't ashamed of being dull and little.
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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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Love is the mystery between two people, not the identity.
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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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All pasts are like poems one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them.
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Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.
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If you want to be true to life, start lying about it
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Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.
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Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base-in both senses-greed.
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The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.
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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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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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When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies
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There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.
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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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