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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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Road

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Hazard has conditioned us to live in hazard. All our pleasures are dependent on it. Even though I arrange for a pleasure, and look forward to it, my eventual enjoyment of it is still a matter of hazard. Wherever time passes, there is hazard.
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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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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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To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.
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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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If you want to be true to life, start lying about it
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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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I am infinitely strange to myself.
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I am one in a row of specimens. It's when I try to flutter out of line that he hates me. I'm meant to be dead, pinned, always the same, always beautiful. He knows that part of my beauty is being alive. but it's the dead me he wants. He wants me living-but-dead.
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The best wines take the longest to mature.
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Stained glass, engraved glass, frosted glass give me plain glass.
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All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one.
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The dead live. How do they live? By love.
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Content is a word unknown to life it is also a word unknown to man.
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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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There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.
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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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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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Between skin and skin, there is only light.
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