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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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My hatred of crowds, the obviousness of crowds, of anything en masse. Is this why I like little-known books? A general desire to escape the main world.
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The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?
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The absurdly neurotic role you and the rest of your kind have always attributed to me Erato, the Goddess Muse of Erotic Poetry bears no relation at all to reality. As a matter of fact, I was trained as a clinical psychologist. Who simply happens to have specialized in the mental illness that you, in your ignorance, call literature.
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Stained glass, engraved glass, frosted glass give me plain glass.
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Content is a word unknown to life it is also a word unknown to man.
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Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.
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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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You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven't any choice. But it's what you say that counts.
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Between skin and skin, there is only light.
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We talked for hours. He talked and I listened. It was like wind and sunlight. It blew all the cobwebs away.
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We all write poems it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
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The dead live. How do they live? By love.
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There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.
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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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You come to the United States not knowing what to expect. Then all your worst prejudices are confirmed.
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There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.
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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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She's always looking for poetry and passion and sensitivity, the whole Romantic kitchen. I live on a rather simpler diet.' 'Prose and pudding?''I don't expect attractive men necessarily to have attractive souls.
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Our knowledge of what the richer than ourselves possess, and the poor do not, has never been more widespread. Therefore, envy, which is wanting what others have, and jealousy, which is not wanting others to have what one has, have never been more widespread.
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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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