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Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society.
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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Leigh-on-Sea
Essex
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People
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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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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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Another reason I think the novel will survive is that the reader has to work in a novel. In a film, you are presented with someone else's imagination exactly bodied out. The marvelous thing about a novel is that every reader will imagine even the very simplest sentence slightly differently.
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Time is not a road - it is a room.
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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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Duty is but a pot. It holds whatever is put in it, from the greatest evil to the greatest good.
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The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke. We're so weak physically, so helpless with things. Still, even today. But we're stronger than they are. We can stand their cruelty. They can't stand ours.
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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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It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live.
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Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.
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The best wines take the longest to mature.
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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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If you want to be true to life, start lying about it
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The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.
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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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All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one.
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To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.
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The dead live. How do they live? By love.
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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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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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