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All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one.
John Fowles
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John Fowles
Age: 79 †
Born: 1926
Born: March 31
Died: 2005
Died: November 5
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We chase the reward, we get the reward and then we discover that the true reward is always the next reward. Buying pleasure is a false end.
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I hate the uneducated and the ignorant. I hate the pompous and the phoney. I hate the jealous and the resentful. I hate the crabbed and mean and the petty. I hate all ordinary dull little people who aren't ashamed of being dull and little.
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Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.
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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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Time is not a road - it is a room.
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I am going to explain to you why we went to war. Why mankind always goes to war. It is not social or political. It is not countries that go to war, but men. It is like salt. Once one has been to war, one has salt for the rest of one's life. Do you understand?
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Science disembodies art embodies.
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These last few days I've felt Godless. I've felt cleaner, less muddled, less blind. I still believe in a God. But he's so remote, so cold, so mathematical. I see that we have to live as if there is no God. Prayer and worship and singing hymns-all silly and useless.
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Love is the mystery between two people, not the identity.
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All pasts are like poems one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them.
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Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.
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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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We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.
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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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Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.
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