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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.
John Fowles
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John Fowles
Age: 79 †
Born: 1926
Born: March 31
Died: 2005
Died: November 5
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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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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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The dead live. How do they live? By love.
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I am infinitely strange to myself.
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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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You come to the United States not knowing what to expect. Then all your worst prejudices are confirmed.
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All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one.
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To despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.
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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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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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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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Follow the accident, fear the fixed plan--that is the rule.
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Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.
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If you forget everything else about me, please remember this. I walked down that street and I never looked back and I love you. I love you. I love you so much that I shall hate you for ever for today.
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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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There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.
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The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.
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I think we are just insects, we live a bit and then die and that’s the lot. There’s no mercy in things. There’s not even a Great Beyond. There’s nothing.
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Between skin and skin, there is only light.
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