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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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And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did.
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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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All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one.
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It is not only species of animal that die out, but whole species of feeling. And if you are wise you will never pity the past for what it did not know, but pity yourself for what it did.
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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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Thomas Beecham was a pompous little band-master who stood against everything creative in the art of his time.
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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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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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Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.
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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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There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.
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Duty is but a pot. It holds whatever is put in it, from the greatest evil to the greatest good.
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If a person is intelligent, then of course he is either an agnostic or an atheist. Just as he is a physical coward. They are automatic definitions of high intelligence.
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To despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.
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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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The practise of an art is essential to the whole man, not because of what art is but because of what art does to the artist.
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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 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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She's always looking for poetry and passion and sensitivity, the whole Romantic kitchen. I live on a rather simpler diet.' 'Prose and pudding?''I don't expect attractive men necessarily to have attractive souls.
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