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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
Room
Rooms
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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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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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The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.
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Stained glass, engraved glass, frosted glass give me plain glass.
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I think we are just insects, we live a bit and then die and that’s the lot. There’s no mercy in things. There’s not even a Great Beyond. There’s nothing.
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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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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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We all write poems it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
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Follow the accident, fear the fixed plan--that is the rule.
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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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It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live.
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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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Love is the mystery between two people, not the identity.
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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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Thomas Beecham was a pompous little band-master who stood against everything creative in the art of his time.
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The great majority of modern third-person narration is I narration very thinly disguised.
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He is solid immovable, iron-willed. He showed me one day his killing bottle. I'm imprisoned in it. Fluttering against the glass. Because I can see through it I still think I can escape. I have hope. But it's all an illusion. A thick round wall of glass.
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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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Our knowledge of what the richer than ourselves possess, and the poor do not, has never been more widespread. Therefore, envy, which is wanting what others have, and jealousy, which is not wanting others to have what one has, have never been more widespread.
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I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart.
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