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Time is not a road - it is a room.

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
Road
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We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.
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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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It is not only species of animal that die out, but whole species of feeling. And if you are wise you will never pity the past for what it did not know, but pity yourself for what it did.
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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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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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The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.
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My hatred of crowds, the obviousness of crowds, of anything en masse. Is this why I like little-known books? A general desire to escape the main world.
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There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.
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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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Each age, each guilty age, builds high walls around its Versailles and personally I hate those walls most when they are made by literature and art.
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One degrades oneself sometimes in the effort not to be lonely.
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The profoundest distances are never geographical.
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Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base-in both senses-greed.
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And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did.
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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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The absurdly neurotic role you and the rest of your kind have always attributed to me Erato, the Goddess Muse of Erotic Poetry bears no relation at all to reality. As a matter of fact, I was trained as a clinical psychologist. Who simply happens to have specialized in the mental illness that you, in your ignorance, call literature.
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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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We talked for hours. He talked and I listened. It was like wind and sunlight. It blew all the cobwebs away.
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Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.
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