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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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The dead live. How do they live? By love.
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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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Just those three words, said and meant. I love you. They were quite hopeless. He said it as he might have said, I have cancer. His fairy story.
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Piers is always going on about how he hated Stowe. As if that solves everything, as if to hate something means it can't have affected you.
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Ask me to marry you. Will you marry me? No.
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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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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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I am going to explain to you why we went to war. Why mankind always goes to war. It is not social or political. It is not countries that go to war, but men. It is like salt. Once one has been to war, one has salt for the rest of one's life. Do you understand?
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Hazard has conditioned us to live in hazard. All our pleasures are dependent on it. Even though I arrange for a pleasure, and look forward to it, my eventual enjoyment of it is still a matter of hazard. Wherever time passes, there is hazard.
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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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Love is the mystery between two people, not the identity.
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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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Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society.
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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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Thomas Beecham was a pompous little band-master who stood against everything creative in the art of his time.
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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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