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John Fowles
Age: 79 †
Born: 1926
Born: March 31
Died: 2005
Died: November 5
Essayist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Teacher
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Leigh-on-Sea
Essex
Stained
Plain
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Glasses
Give
Giving
Frosted
Engraved

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Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society.
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The American myth is of free will in its simple, primary sense. One can choose oneself and will oneself and this absurdly optimistic assumption so dominates the republic that it has bred all its gross social injustices.
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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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Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.
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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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To despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.
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The profoundest distances are never geographical.
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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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