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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.
John Fowles
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John Fowles
Age: 79 †
Born: 1926
Born: March 31
Died: 2005
Died: November 5
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I read and I read and I was like a medieval king, I had fallen in love with the picture long before I saw the reality.
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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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I am infinitely strange to myself.
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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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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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There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.
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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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Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.
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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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To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.
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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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There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.
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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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We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.
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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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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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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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We talked for hours. He talked and I listened. It was like wind and sunlight. It blew all the cobwebs away.
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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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