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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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Content is a word unknown to life it is also a word unknown to man.
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Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.
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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 profoundest distances are never geographical.
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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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I am infinitely strange to myself.
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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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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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I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart.
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That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.
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The great majority of modern third-person narration is I narration very thinly disguised.
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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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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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The best wines take the longest to mature.
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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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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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He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal.
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Being an atheist is a matter not of moral choice, but of human obligation.
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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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When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies
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