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John Fowles
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John Fowles
Age: 79 †
Born: 1926
Born: March 31
Died: 2005
Died: November 5
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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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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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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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We talked for hours. He talked and I listened. It was like wind and sunlight. It blew all the cobwebs away.
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Time is not a road - it is a room.
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The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.
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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.
John Fowles
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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The profoundest distances are never geographical.
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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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It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live.
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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.
John Fowles
When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies
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Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.
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His statement to himself should have been, 'I possess this now, therefore I am happy', instead of what it so Victorianly was: I cannot possess this for ever, and therefore am sad.
John Fowles
Science disembodies art embodies.
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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.
John Fowles
Content is a word unknown to life it is also a word unknown to man.
John Fowles
Always we try to put the wild in a cage.
John Fowles
Greece is like a mirror. It makes you suffer. Then you learn.' To live alone?' To live. With what you are.
John Fowles
