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If you want to be true to life, start lying about it
John Fowles
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John Fowles
Age: 79 †
Born: 1926
Born: March 31
Died: 2005
Died: November 5
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Leigh-on-Sea
Essex
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The dead live. How do they live? By love.
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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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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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Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.
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To despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.
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That's the trouble with provincial life. Everyone knows everyone and there is no mystery. No romance.
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One degrades oneself sometimes in the effort not to be lonely.
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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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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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Piers is always going on about how he hated Stowe. As if that solves everything, as if to hate something means it can't have affected you.
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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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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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Being an atheist is a matter not of moral choice, but of human obligation.
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I do not plan my fiction any more than I normally plan woodland walks I follow the path that seems most promising at any given point, not some itinerary decided before entry.
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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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It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live.
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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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I knew I would always want to go on living with myself, however hollow I became, however diseased.
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The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.
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