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Stained glass, engraved glass, frosted glass give me plain glass.

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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
Glasses
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Frosted
Engraved
Stained
Plain
Glass

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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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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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Art is a statement of one in the face of all not a statement by one for the use of all.
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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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We all write poems it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
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I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart.
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I knew words were like chains, they held me back . . . the act of description taints the description.
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The profoundest distances are never geographical.
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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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Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.
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I hate the uneducated and the ignorant. I hate the pompous and the phoney. I hate the jealous and the resentful. I hate the crabbed and mean and the petty. I hate all ordinary dull little people who aren't ashamed of being dull and little.
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All pasts are like poems one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them.
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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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The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.
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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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Love is the mystery between two people, not the identity.
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And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did.
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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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