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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
Take
Wines
Longest
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Wine
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All pasts are like poems one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them.
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Hazard has conditioned us to live in hazard. All our pleasures are dependent on it. Even though I arrange for a pleasure, and look forward to it, my eventual enjoyment of it is still a matter of hazard. Wherever time passes, there is hazard.
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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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It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live.
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One degrades oneself sometimes in the effort not to be lonely.
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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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Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.
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The dead live. How do they live? By love.
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The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.
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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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And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did.
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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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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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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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