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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
Essayist
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Screenwriter
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Leigh-on-Sea
Essex
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You wish to be liked. I wish simply to be. One day you will know what that means, perhaps. And you will smile. Not against me. But with me.
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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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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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There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.
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We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.
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The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.
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Stained glass, engraved glass, frosted glass give me plain glass.
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Duty is but a pot. It holds whatever is put in it, from the greatest evil to the greatest good.
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The best wines take the longest to mature.
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Always we try to put the wild in a cage.
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And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did.
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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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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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