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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
Life
Contentment
Unknown
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Men

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Being an atheist is a matter not of moral choice, but of human obligation.
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Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.
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Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.
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Art is a statement of one in the face of all not a statement by one for the use of all.
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The best wines take the longest to mature.
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Ask me to marry you. Will you marry me? No.
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The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.
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She's always looking for poetry and passion and sensitivity, the whole Romantic kitchen. I live on a rather simpler diet.' 'Prose and pudding?''I don't expect attractive men necessarily to have attractive souls.
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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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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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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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Like all mystics (and many novelists, not least the present one) he is baffled, a child, before the real now far happier out of it, in a narrative past or a prophetic future, locked inside that weird tence grammar does not allow, the imaginary present.
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You come to the United States not knowing what to expect. Then all your worst prejudices are confirmed.
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Science disembodies art embodies.
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If you want to be true to life, start lying about it
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