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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
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The American myth is of free will in its simple, primary sense. One can choose oneself and will oneself and this absurdly optimistic assumption so dominates the republic that it has bred all its gross social injustices.
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It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live.
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Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.
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There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.
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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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I am one in a row of specimens. It's when I try to flutter out of line that he hates me. I'm meant to be dead, pinned, always the same, always beautiful. He knows that part of my beauty is being alive. but it's the dead me he wants. He wants me living-but-dead.
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The dead live. How do they live? By love.
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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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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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There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.
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All pasts are like poems one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them.
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You wish to be liked. I wish simply to be. One day you will know what that means, perhaps. And you will smile. Not against me. But with me.
John Fowles
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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It is not only species of animal that die out, but whole species of feeling. And if you are wise you will never pity the past for what it did not know, but pity yourself for what it did.
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Thomas Beecham was a pompous little band-master who stood against everything creative in the art of his time.
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To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.
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One degrades oneself sometimes in the effort not to be lonely.
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Being an atheist is a matter not of moral choice, but of human obligation.
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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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Love is the mystery between two people, not the identity.
John Fowles
