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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
Novelist
Screenwriter
Teacher
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Leigh-on-Sea
Essex
Longest
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Wine
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Wines

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You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven't any choice. But it's what you say that counts.
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That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.
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Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.
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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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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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All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one.
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