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The newspapers are full of what we would like to happen to us and what we hope will never happen to us.
John Fowles
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John Fowles
Age: 79 †
Born: 1926
Born: March 31
Died: 2005
Died: November 5
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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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Always we try to put the wild in a cage.
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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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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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Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.
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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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The American myth is of free will in its simple, primary sense. One can choose oneself and will oneself and this absurdly optimistic assumption so dominates the republic that it has bred all its gross social injustices.
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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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The dead live. How do they live? By love.
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Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.
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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 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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Content is a word unknown to life it is also a word unknown to man.
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The diary will really try and tell people who you are and what you were. The alternative is writing nothing, or creating a totally lifeless, as it is leafless, garden.
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And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did.
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There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.
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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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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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Stained glass, engraved glass, frosted glass give me plain glass.
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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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