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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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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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To despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.
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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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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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One degrades oneself sometimes in the effort not to be lonely.
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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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And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did.
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Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.
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Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society.
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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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Being an atheist is a matter not of moral choice, but of human obligation.
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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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I think we are just insects, we live a bit and then die and that’s the lot. There’s no mercy in things. There’s not even a Great Beyond. There’s nothing.
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The dead live. How do they live? By love.
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I am infinitely strange to myself.
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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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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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If you want to be true to life, start lying about it
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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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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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