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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
Plain
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Frosted
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Another reason I think the novel will survive is that the reader has to work in a novel. In a film, you are presented with someone else's imagination exactly bodied out. The marvelous thing about a novel is that every reader will imagine even the very simplest sentence slightly differently.
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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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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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The dead live. How do they live? By love.
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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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The practise of an art is essential to the whole man, not because of what art is but because of what art does to the artist.
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Follow the accident, fear the fixed plan--that is the rule.
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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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The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke. We're so weak physically, so helpless with things. Still, even today. But we're stronger than they are. We can stand their cruelty. They can't stand ours.
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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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I knew I would always want to go on living with myself, however hollow I became, however diseased.
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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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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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Love is the mystery between two people, not the identity.
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We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.
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When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies
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The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.
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All pasts are like poems one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them.
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I have a strange illusion quite often. I think I've become deaf. I have to make a little noise to prove I'm not. I clear my throat to show myself that everything is normal. It's like the little Japanese girl they found in the ruins of Hiroshima. Everything dead and she was singing to her doll.
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Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.
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