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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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To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.
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Follow the accident, fear the fixed plan--that is the rule.
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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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He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal.
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There are some men who are consoled by the idea that there are women less attractive than their wives and others who are haunted by the knowledge that there are more attractive.
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It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live.
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The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?
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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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Content is a word unknown to life it is also a word unknown to man.
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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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Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.
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Each age, each guilty age, builds high walls around its Versailles and personally I hate those walls most when they are made by literature and art.
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The dead live. How do they live? By love.
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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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When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies
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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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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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I have a strange illusion quite often. I think I've become deaf. I have to make a little noise to prove I'm not. I clear my throat to show myself that everything is normal. It's like the little Japanese girl they found in the ruins of Hiroshima. Everything dead and she was singing to her doll.
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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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There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.
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