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The best wines take the longest to mature.
John Fowles
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John Fowles
Age: 79 †
Born: 1926
Born: March 31
Died: 2005
Died: November 5
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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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Follow the accident, fear the fixed plan--that is the rule.
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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 knew words were like chains, they held me back . . . the act of description taints the description.
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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 is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.
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The profoundest distances are never geographical.
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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.
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I do not plan my fiction any more than I normally plan woodland walks I follow the path that seems most promising at any given point, not some itinerary decided before entry.
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To despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.
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Always we try to put the wild in a cage.
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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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It is not only species of animal that die out, but whole species of feeling. And if you are wise you will never pity the past for what it did not know, but pity yourself for what it did.
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The absurdly neurotic role you and the rest of your kind have always attributed to me Erato, the Goddess Muse of Erotic Poetry bears no relation at all to reality. As a matter of fact, I was trained as a clinical psychologist. Who simply happens to have specialized in the mental illness that you, in your ignorance, call literature.
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I am one in a row of specimens. It's when I try to flutter out of line that he hates me. I'm meant to be dead, pinned, always the same, always beautiful. He knows that part of my beauty is being alive. but it's the dead me he wants. He wants me living-but-dead.
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Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.
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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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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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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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We all write poems it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
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