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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
Time

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Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.
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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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The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.
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To despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.
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Stained glass, engraved glass, frosted glass give me plain glass.
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There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.
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I am infinitely strange to myself.
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Ask me to marry you. Will you marry me? No.
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Science disembodies art embodies.
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The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.
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The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke. We're so weak physically, so helpless with things. Still, even today. But we're stronger than they are. We can stand their cruelty. They can't stand ours.
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Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.
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I have a strange illusion quite often. I think I've become deaf. I have to make a little noise to prove I'm not. I clear my throat to show myself that everything is normal. It's like the little Japanese girl they found in the ruins of Hiroshima. Everything dead and she was singing to her doll.
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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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I read and I read and I was like a medieval king, I had fallen in love with the picture long before I saw the reality.
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