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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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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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I am one in a row of specimens. It's when I try to flutter out of line that he hates me. I'm meant to be dead, pinned, always the same, always beautiful. He knows that part of my beauty is being alive. but it's the dead me he wants. He wants me living-but-dead.
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The dead live. How do they live? By love.
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Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base-in both senses-greed.
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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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Thomas Beecham was a pompous little band-master who stood against everything creative in the art of his time.
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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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There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.
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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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We talked for hours. He talked and I listened. It was like wind and sunlight. It blew all the cobwebs away.
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Always we try to put the wild in a cage.
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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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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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Another reason I think the novel will survive is that the reader has to work in a novel. In a film, you are presented with someone else's imagination exactly bodied out. The marvelous thing about a novel is that every reader will imagine even the very simplest sentence slightly differently.
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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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The profoundest distances are never geographical.
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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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Between skin and skin, there is only light.
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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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Greece is like a mirror. It makes you suffer. Then you learn.' To live alone?' To live. With what you are.
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