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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 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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The profoundest distances are never geographical.
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He felt himself in suspension between the two worlds, the warm, neat civilization behind his back, the cool, dark mystery outside. We all write poems it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
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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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And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did.
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I have a strange illusion quite often. I think I've become deaf. I have to make a little noise to prove I'm not. I clear my throat to show myself that everything is normal. It's like the little Japanese girl they found in the ruins of Hiroshima. Everything dead and she was singing to her doll.
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Ask me to marry you. Will you marry me? No.
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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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Between skin and skin, there is only light.
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Greece is like a mirror. It makes you suffer. Then you learn.' To live alone?' To live. With what you are.
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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 dead live. How do they live? By love.
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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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The great majority of modern third-person narration is I narration very thinly disguised.
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Follow the accident, fear the fixed plan--that is the rule.
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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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To despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.
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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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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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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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