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Just those three words, said and meant. I love you. They were quite hopeless. He said it as he might have said, I have cancer. His fairy story.
John Fowles
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John Fowles
Age: 79 †
Born: 1926
Born: March 31
Died: 2005
Died: November 5
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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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If you forget everything else about me, please remember this. I walked down that street and I never looked back and I love you. I love you. I love you so much that I shall hate you for ever for today.
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Time is not a road - it is a room.
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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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I am infinitely strange to myself.
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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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If you want to be true to life, start lying about it
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All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one.
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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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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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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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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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It is not only species of animal that die out, but whole species of feeling. And if you are wise you will never pity the past for what it did not know, but pity yourself for what it did.
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When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies
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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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Which are you drinking? The water or the wave?
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We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.
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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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Between skin and skin, there is only light.
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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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