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

John Fowles

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John Fowles
Age: 79 †
Born: 1926
Born: March 31
Died: 2005
Died: November 5
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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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Stained glass, engraved glass, frosted glass give me plain glass.
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The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke. We're so weak physically, so helpless with things. Still, even today. But we're stronger than they are. We can stand their cruelty. They can't stand ours.
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Science disembodies art embodies.
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We all write poems it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
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Always we try to put the wild in a cage.
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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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There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.
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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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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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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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