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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.
John Fowles
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John Fowles
Age: 79 †
Born: 1926
Born: March 31
Died: 2005
Died: November 5
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Science disembodies art embodies.
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There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.
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You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven't any choice. But it's what you say that counts.
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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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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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To despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.
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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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I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope - an impotence, in short and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.
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Duty is but a pot. It holds whatever is put in it, from the greatest evil to the greatest good.
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One degrades oneself sometimes in the effort not to be lonely.
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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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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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Hazard has conditioned us to live in hazard. All our pleasures are dependent on it. Even though I arrange for a pleasure, and look forward to it, my eventual enjoyment of it is still a matter of hazard. Wherever time passes, there is hazard.
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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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Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.
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The dead live. How do they live? By love.
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His statement to himself should have been, 'I possess this now, therefore I am happy', instead of what it so Victorianly was: I cannot possess this for ever, and therefore am sad.
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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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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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There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.
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