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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
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Screenwriter
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Leigh-on-Sea
Essex
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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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Science disembodies art embodies.
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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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I knew words were like chains, they held me back . . . the act of description taints the description.
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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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The great majority of modern third-person narration is I narration very thinly disguised.
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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 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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All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one.
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Being an atheist is a matter not of moral choice, but of human obligation.
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The practise of an art is essential to the whole man, not because of what art is but because of what art does to the artist.
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If you want to be true to life, start lying about it
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Time is not a road - it is a room.
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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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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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It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live.
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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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All pasts are like poems one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them.
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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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Love is the mystery between two people, not the identity.
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