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You come to the United States not knowing what to expect. Then all your worst prejudices are confirmed.
John Fowles
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John Fowles
Age: 79 †
Born: 1926
Born: March 31
Died: 2005
Died: November 5
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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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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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We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.
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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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Duty is but a pot. It holds whatever is put in it, from the greatest evil to the greatest good.
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I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope - an impotence, in short and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.
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Like all mystics (and many novelists, not least the present one) he is baffled, a child, before the real now far happier out of it, in a narrative past or a prophetic future, locked inside that weird tence grammar does not allow, the imaginary present.
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Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.
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We all write poems it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
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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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There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.
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And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did.
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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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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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There are some men who are consoled by the idea that there are women less attractive than their wives and others who are haunted by the knowledge that there are more attractive.
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There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.
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Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.
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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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