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Which are you drinking? The water or the wave?

John Fowles

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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
Excellence
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All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one.
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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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Science disembodies art embodies.
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Ask me to marry you. Will you marry me? No.
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All pasts are like poems one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them.
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And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did.
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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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