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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
Novelist
Screenwriter
Teacher
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Leigh-on-Sea
Essex
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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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All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one.
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To despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.
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The best wines take the longest to mature.
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Wealth is a monster. It takes a month to learn to control it financially. And many years to learn to control it psychologically.
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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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Duty is but a pot. It holds whatever is put in it, from the greatest evil to the greatest good.
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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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The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke. We're so weak physically, so helpless with things. Still, even today. But we're stronger than they are. We can stand their cruelty. They can't stand ours.
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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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Each age, each guilty age, builds high walls around its Versailles and personally I hate those walls most when they are made by literature and art.
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The great majority of modern third-person narration is I narration very thinly disguised.
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The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?
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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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We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.
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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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The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.
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