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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
Embodies
Science
Art

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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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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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We all write poems it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
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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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Stained glass, engraved glass, frosted glass give me plain glass.
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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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Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.
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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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The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.
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We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.
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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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Time is not a road - it is a room.
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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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Follow the accident, fear the fixed plan--that is the rule.
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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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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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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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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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