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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.
John Fowles
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John Fowles
Age: 79 †
Born: 1926
Born: March 31
Died: 2005
Died: November 5
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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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The American myth is of free will in its simple, primary sense. One can choose oneself and will oneself and this absurdly optimistic assumption so dominates the republic that it has bred all its gross social injustices.
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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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There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.
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When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies
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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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We all write poems it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
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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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To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.
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Content is a word unknown to life it is also a word unknown to man.
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Between skin and skin, there is only light.
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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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Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.
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Being an atheist is a matter not of moral choice, but of human obligation.
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I am infinitely strange to myself.
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I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart.
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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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It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live.
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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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Thomas Beecham was a pompous little band-master who stood against everything creative in the art of his time.
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