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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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Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.
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Like all mystics (and many novelists, not least the present one) he is baffled, a child, before the real now far happier out of it, in a narrative past or a prophetic future, locked inside that weird tence grammar does not allow, the imaginary present.
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My hatred of crowds, the obviousness of crowds, of anything en masse. Is this why I like little-known books? A general desire to escape the main world.
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There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.
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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 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 is a statement of one in the face of all not a statement by one for the use of all.
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We all write poems it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
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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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Being an atheist is a matter not of moral choice, but of human obligation.
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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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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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Piers is always going on about how he hated Stowe. As if that solves everything, as if to hate something means it can't have affected you.
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The dead live. How do they live? By love.
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Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.
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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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I do not plan my fiction any more than I normally plan woodland walks I follow the path that seems most promising at any given point, not some itinerary decided before entry.
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Thomas Beecham was a pompous little band-master who stood against everything creative in the art of his time.
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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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