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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
Writer
Leigh-on-Sea
Essex
Rooms
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Being an atheist is a matter not of moral choice, but of human obligation.
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All pasts are like poems one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them.
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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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Always we try to put the wild in a cage.
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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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Love is the mystery between two people, not the identity.
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Duty is but a pot. It holds whatever is put in it, from the greatest evil to the greatest good.
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Content is a word unknown to life it is also a word unknown to man.
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There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.
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Another reason I think the novel will survive is that the reader has to work in a novel. In a film, you are presented with someone else's imagination exactly bodied out. The marvelous thing about a novel is that every reader will imagine even the very simplest sentence slightly differently.
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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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I am infinitely strange to myself.
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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 best wines take the longest to mature.
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I am going to explain to you why we went to war. Why mankind always goes to war. It is not social or political. It is not countries that go to war, but men. It is like salt. Once one has been to war, one has salt for the rest of one's life. Do you understand?
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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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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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There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.
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Science disembodies art embodies.
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