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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
Embodies
Science
Art

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The newspapers are full of what we would like to happen to us and what we hope will never happen to us.
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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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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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You come to the United States not knowing what to expect. Then all your worst prejudices are confirmed.
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There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.
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I am infinitely strange to myself.
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Ask me to marry you. Will you marry me? No.
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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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Being an atheist is a matter not of moral choice, but of human obligation.
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Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.
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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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And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did.
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The best wines take the longest to mature.
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Hazard has conditioned us to live in hazard. All our pleasures are dependent on it. Even though I arrange for a pleasure, and look forward to it, my eventual enjoyment of it is still a matter of hazard. Wherever time passes, there is hazard.
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Always we try to put the wild in a cage.
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We chase the reward, we get the reward and then we discover that the true reward is always the next reward. Buying pleasure is a false end.
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The absurdly neurotic role you and the rest of your kind have always attributed to me Erato, the Goddess Muse of Erotic Poetry bears no relation at all to reality. As a matter of fact, I was trained as a clinical psychologist. Who simply happens to have specialized in the mental illness that you, in your ignorance, call literature.
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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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Follow the accident, fear the fixed plan--that is the rule.
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Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.
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