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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
Science
Art
Embodies

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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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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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Content is a word unknown to life it is also a word unknown to man.
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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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Stained glass, engraved glass, frosted glass give me plain glass.
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We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.
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Which are you drinking? The water or the wave?
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Between skin and skin, there is only light.
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The diary will really try and tell people who you are and what you were. The alternative is writing nothing, or creating a totally lifeless, as it is leafless, garden.
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If you forget everything else about me, please remember this. I walked down that street and I never looked back and I love you. I love you. I love you so much that I shall hate you for ever for today.
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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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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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If you want to be true to life, start lying about it
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There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.
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The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?
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He is solid immovable, iron-willed. He showed me one day his killing bottle. I'm imprisoned in it. Fluttering against the glass. Because I can see through it I still think I can escape. I have hope. But it's all an illusion. A thick round wall of glass.
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And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did.
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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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He felt himself in suspension between the two worlds, the warm, neat civilization behind his back, the cool, dark mystery outside. We all write poems it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
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