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Ask me to marry you. Will you marry me? No.

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John Fowles
Age: 79 †
Born: 1926
Born: March 31
Died: 2005
Died: November 5
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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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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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Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.
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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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And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did.
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The best wines take the longest to mature.
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I just think of things as beautiful or not. Can't you understand? I don't think of good or bad. Just of beautiful or ugly. I think a lot of nice things are ugly and a lot of nasty things are beautiful.
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Always we try to put the wild in a cage.
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That's the trouble with provincial life. Everyone knows everyone and there is no mystery. No romance.
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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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Time is not a road - it is a room.
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I read and I read and I was like a medieval king, I had fallen in love with the picture long before I saw the reality.
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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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To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.
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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 dead live. How do they live? By love.
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If you want to be true to life, start lying about it
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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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Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.
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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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