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Duty is but a pot. It holds whatever is put in it, from the greatest evil to the greatest good.
John Fowles
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John Fowles
Age: 79 †
Born: 1926
Born: March 31
Died: 2005
Died: November 5
Essayist
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I think we are just insects, we live a bit and then die and that’s the lot. There’s no mercy in things. There’s not even a Great Beyond. There’s nothing.
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There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.
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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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The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.
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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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It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live.
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Time is not a road - it is a room.
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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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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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Which are you drinking? The water or the wave?
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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 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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To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.
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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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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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These last few days I've felt Godless. I've felt cleaner, less muddled, less blind. I still believe in a God. But he's so remote, so cold, so mathematical. I see that we have to live as if there is no God. Prayer and worship and singing hymns-all silly and useless.
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Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society.
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The practise of an art is essential to the whole man, not because of what art is but because of what art does to the artist.
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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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