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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
Essayist
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Screenwriter
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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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My hatred of crowds, the obviousness of crowds, of anything en masse. Is this why I like little-known books? A general desire to escape the main world.
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The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?
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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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Being an atheist is a matter not of moral choice, but of human obligation.
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The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.
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I am infinitely strange to myself.
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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 knew words were like chains, they held me back . . . the act of description taints the description.
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If you want to be true to life, start lying about it
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Ask me to marry you. Will you marry me? No.
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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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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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You come to the United States not knowing what to expect. Then all your worst prejudices are confirmed.
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When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies
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Follow the accident, fear the fixed plan--that is the rule.
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Content is a word unknown to life it is also a word unknown to man.
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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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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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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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