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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 diary will really try and tell people who you are and what you were. The alternative is writing nothing, or creating a totally lifeless, as it is leafless, garden.
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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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You come to the United States not knowing what to expect. Then all your worst prejudices are confirmed.
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Just those three words, said and meant. I love you. They were quite hopeless. He said it as he might have said, I have cancer. His fairy story.
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I am going to explain to you why we went to war. Why mankind always goes to war. It is not social or political. It is not countries that go to war, but men. It is like salt. Once one has been to war, one has salt for the rest of one's life. Do you understand?
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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 best wines take the longest to mature.
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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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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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The dead live. How do they live? By love.
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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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Which are you drinking? The water or the wave?
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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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Time is not a road - it is a room.
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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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Being an atheist is a matter not of moral choice, but of human obligation.
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To despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.
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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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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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If you want to be true to life, start lying about it
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