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That's the trouble with provincial life. Everyone knows everyone and there is no mystery. No romance.

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
Life
Provincial
Romance
Mystery
Trouble
Everyone

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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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Stained glass, engraved glass, frosted glass give me plain glass.
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Content is a word unknown to life it is also a word unknown to man.
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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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To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.
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And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did.
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Our knowledge of what the richer than ourselves possess, and the poor do not, has never been more widespread. Therefore, envy, which is wanting what others have, and jealousy, which is not wanting others to have what one has, have never been more widespread.
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The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke. We're so weak physically, so helpless with things. Still, even today. But we're stronger than they are. We can stand their cruelty. They can't stand ours.
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All pasts are like poems one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them.
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There are some men who are consoled by the idea that there are women less attractive than their wives and others who are haunted by the knowledge that there are more attractive.
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