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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
Room
Rooms
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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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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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If you forget everything else about me, please remember this. I walked down that street and I never looked back and I love you. I love you. I love you so much that I shall hate you for ever for today.
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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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His statement to himself should have been, 'I possess this now, therefore I am happy', instead of what it so Victorianly was: I cannot possess this for ever, and therefore am sad.
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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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Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.
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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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Science disembodies art embodies.
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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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Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society.
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The profoundest distances are never geographical.
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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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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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There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.
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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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