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

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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
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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.
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All pasts are like poems one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them.
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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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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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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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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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There are some men who are consoled by the idea that there are women less attractive than their wives and others who are haunted by the knowledge that there are more attractive.
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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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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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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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The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.
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Love is the mystery between two people, not the identity.
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