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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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Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.
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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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When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies
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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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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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I just think of things as beautiful or not. Can't you understand? I don't think of good or bad. Just of beautiful or ugly. I think a lot of nice things are ugly and a lot of nasty things are beautiful.
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Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.
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The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.
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All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one.
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Always we try to put the wild in a cage.
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Love is the mystery between two people, not the identity.
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The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.
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I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart.
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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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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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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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