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The best wines take the longest to mature.

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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
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The diary will really try and tell people who you are and what you were. The alternative is writing nothing, or creating a totally lifeless, as it is leafless, garden.
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Between skin and skin, there is only light.
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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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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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We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.
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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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I am infinitely strange to myself.
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I knew I would always want to go on living with myself, however hollow I became, however diseased.
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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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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 hate the uneducated and the ignorant. I hate the pompous and the phoney. I hate the jealous and the resentful. I hate the crabbed and mean and the petty. I hate all ordinary dull little people who aren't ashamed of being dull and little.
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If you want to be true to life, start lying about it
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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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I read and I read and I was like a medieval king, I had fallen in love with the picture long before I saw the reality.
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His statement to himself should have been, 'I possess this now, therefore I am happy', instead of what it so Victorianly was: I cannot possess this for ever, and therefore am sad.
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Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society.
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These last few days I've felt Godless. I've felt cleaner, less muddled, less blind. I still believe in a God. But he's so remote, so cold, so mathematical. I see that we have to live as if there is no God. Prayer and worship and singing hymns-all silly and useless.
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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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