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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.

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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Screenwriter
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Leigh-on-Sea
Essex
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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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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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All pasts are like poems one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them.
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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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I knew words were like chains, they held me back . . . the act of description taints the description.
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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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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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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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Content is a word unknown to life it is also a word unknown to man.
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There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.
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Ask me to marry you. Will you marry me? No.
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Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.
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