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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
Essayist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Teacher
Writer
Leigh-on-Sea
Essex
Start
Lying
True
Life

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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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Love is the mystery between two people, not the identity.
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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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I knew I would always want to go on living with myself, however hollow I became, however diseased.
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He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal.
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To despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.
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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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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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All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one.
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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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Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.
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I read and I read and I was like a medieval king, I had fallen in love with the picture long before I saw the reality.
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Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base-in both senses-greed.
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