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The great majority of modern third-person narration is I narration very thinly disguised.
John Fowles
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John Fowles
Age: 79 †
Born: 1926
Born: March 31
Died: 2005
Died: November 5
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That's the trouble with provincial life. Everyone knows everyone and there is no mystery. No romance.
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I am one in a row of specimens. It's when I try to flutter out of line that he hates me. I'm meant to be dead, pinned, always the same, always beautiful. He knows that part of my beauty is being alive. but it's the dead me he wants. He wants me living-but-dead.
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Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.
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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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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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To despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.
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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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