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John Fowles
Age: 79 †
Born: 1926
Born: March 31
Died: 2005
Died: November 5
Essayist
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Leigh-on-Sea
Essex
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Greece is like a mirror. It makes you suffer. Then you learn.' To live alone?' To live. With what you are.
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The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.
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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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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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That's the trouble with provincial life. Everyone knows everyone and there is no mystery. No romance.
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Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.
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Time is not a road - it is a room.
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I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope - an impotence, in short and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.
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I do not plan my fiction any more than I normally plan woodland walks I follow the path that seems most promising at any given point, not some itinerary decided before entry.
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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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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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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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She's always looking for poetry and passion and sensitivity, the whole Romantic kitchen. I live on a rather simpler diet.' 'Prose and pudding?''I don't expect attractive men necessarily to have attractive souls.
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The great majority of modern third-person narration is I narration very thinly disguised.
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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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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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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.
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That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.
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Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.
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Duty is but a pot. It holds whatever is put in it, from the greatest evil to the greatest good.
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