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Content is a word unknown to life it is also a word unknown to man.

John Fowles

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John Fowles
Age: 79 †
Born: 1926
Born: March 31
Died: 2005
Died: November 5
Essayist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Teacher
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Leigh-on-Sea
Essex
Men
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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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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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He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal.
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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.
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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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Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.
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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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To despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.
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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 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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You wish to be liked. I wish simply to be. One day you will know what that means, perhaps. And you will smile. Not against me. But with me.
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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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Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society.
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Love is the mystery between two people, not the identity.
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