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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
Time
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And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did.
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You wish to be liked. I wish simply to be. One day you will know what that means, perhaps. And you will smile. Not against me. But with me.
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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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Love is the mystery between two people, not the identity.
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Which are you drinking? The water or the wave?
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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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I knew I would always want to go on living with myself, however hollow I became, however diseased.
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Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.
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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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I just think of things as beautiful or not. Can't you understand? I don't think of good or bad. Just of beautiful or ugly. I think a lot of nice things are ugly and a lot of nasty things are beautiful.
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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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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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One degrades oneself sometimes in the effort not to be lonely.
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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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I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope - an impotence, in short and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.
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To despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.
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Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.
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If a person is intelligent, then of course he is either an agnostic or an atheist. Just as he is a physical coward. They are automatic definitions of high intelligence.
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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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