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There are some men who are consoled by the idea that there are women less attractive than their wives and others who are haunted by the knowledge that there are more attractive.
John Fowles
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John Fowles
Age: 79 †
Born: 1926
Born: March 31
Died: 2005
Died: November 5
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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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Stained glass, engraved glass, frosted glass give me plain glass.
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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 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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It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live.
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Follow the accident, fear the fixed plan--that is the rule.
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He felt himself in suspension between the two worlds, the warm, neat civilization behind his back, the cool, dark mystery outside. We all write poems it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
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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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The dead live. How do they live? By love.
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You come to the United States not knowing what to expect. Then all your worst prejudices are confirmed.
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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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Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart.
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Like all mystics (and many novelists, not least the present one) he is baffled, a child, before the real now far happier out of it, in a narrative past or a prophetic future, locked inside that weird tence grammar does not allow, the imaginary present.
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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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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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That's the trouble with provincial life. Everyone knows everyone and there is no mystery. No romance.
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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 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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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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He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal.
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