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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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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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To despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.
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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 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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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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That's the trouble with provincial life. Everyone knows everyone and there is no mystery. No romance.
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I knew words were like chains, they held me back . . . the act of description taints the description.
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Love is the mystery between two people, not the identity.
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He is solid immovable, iron-willed. He showed me one day his killing bottle. I'm imprisoned in it. Fluttering against the glass. Because I can see through it I still think I can escape. I have hope. But it's all an illusion. A thick round wall of glass.
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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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Follow the accident, fear the fixed plan--that is the rule.
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The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.
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Ask me to marry you. Will you marry me? No.
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You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven't any choice. But it's what you say that counts.
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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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