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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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The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.
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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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We chase the reward, we get the reward and then we discover that the true reward is always the next reward. Buying pleasure is a false end.
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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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Always we try to put the wild in a cage.
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I am infinitely strange to myself.
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When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies
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The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.
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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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He is solid immovable, iron-willed. He showed me one day his killing bottle. I'm imprisoned in it. Fluttering against the glass. Because I can see through it I still think I can escape. I have hope. But it's all an illusion. A thick round wall of glass.
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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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We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.
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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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There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.
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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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Art is a statement of one in the face of all not a statement by one for the use of all.
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There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.
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I do not plan my fiction any more than I normally plan woodland walks I follow the path that seems most promising at any given point, not some itinerary decided before entry.
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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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Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society.
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