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The profoundest distances are never geographical.

John Fowles

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John Fowles
Age: 79 †
Born: 1926
Born: March 31
Died: 2005
Died: November 5
Essayist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Teacher
Writer
Leigh-on-Sea
Essex
Profoundest
Geographical
Distances
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Never

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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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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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I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart.
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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 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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Ask me to marry you. Will you marry me? No.
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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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Piers is always going on about how he hated Stowe. As if that solves everything, as if to hate something means it can't have affected you.
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Being an atheist is a matter not of moral choice, but of human obligation.
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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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You wish to be liked. I wish simply to be. One day you will know what that means, perhaps. And you will smile. Not against me. But with me.
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Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.
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I am infinitely strange to myself.
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That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.
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Just those three words, said and meant. I love you. They were quite hopeless. He said it as he might have said, I have cancer. His fairy story.
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Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.
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All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one.
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