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Follow the accident, fear the fixed plan--that is the rule.
John Fowles
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John Fowles
Age: 79 †
Born: 1926
Born: March 31
Died: 2005
Died: November 5
Essayist
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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 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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Content is a word unknown to life it is also a word unknown to man.
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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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We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.
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Stained glass, engraved glass, frosted glass give me plain glass.
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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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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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If you want to be true to life, start lying about it
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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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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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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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If you forget everything else about me, please remember this. I walked down that street and I never looked back and I love you. I love you. I love you so much that I shall hate you for ever for today.
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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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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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Another reason I think the novel will survive is that the reader has to work in a novel. In a film, you are presented with someone else's imagination exactly bodied out. The marvelous thing about a novel is that every reader will imagine even the very simplest sentence slightly differently.
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He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal.
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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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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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