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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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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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To despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.
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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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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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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 absurdly neurotic role you and the rest of your kind have always attributed to me Erato, the Goddess Muse of Erotic Poetry bears no relation at all to reality. As a matter of fact, I was trained as a clinical psychologist. Who simply happens to have specialized in the mental illness that you, in your ignorance, call literature.
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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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All pasts are like poems one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them.
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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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All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one.
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Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base-in both senses-greed.
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There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.
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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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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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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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Thomas Beecham was a pompous little band-master who stood against everything creative in the art of his time.
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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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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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The dead live. How do they live? By love.
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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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