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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.
John Fowles
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John Fowles
Age: 79 †
Born: 1926
Born: March 31
Died: 2005
Died: November 5
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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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All pasts are like poems one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them.
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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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Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.
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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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You come to the United States not knowing what to expect. Then all your worst prejudices are confirmed.
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You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven't any choice. But it's what you say that counts.
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We all write poems it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
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And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did.
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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.
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To despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.
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Being an atheist is a matter not of moral choice, but of human obligation.
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The practise of an art is essential to the whole man, not because of what art is but because of what art does to the artist.
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Art is a statement of one in the face of all not a statement by one for the use of all.
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All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one.
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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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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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Always we try to put the wild in a cage.
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Content is a word unknown to life it is also a word unknown to man.
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Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.
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