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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
Essayist
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Leigh-on-Sea
Essex
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It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live.
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She's always looking for poetry and passion and sensitivity, the whole Romantic kitchen. I live on a rather simpler diet.' 'Prose and pudding?''I don't expect attractive men necessarily to have attractive souls.
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Another reason I think the novel will survive is that the reader has to work in a novel. In a film, you are presented with someone else's imagination exactly bodied out. The marvelous thing about a novel is that every reader will imagine even the very simplest sentence slightly differently.
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All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one.
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And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did.
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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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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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Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.
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The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke. We're so weak physically, so helpless with things. Still, even today. But we're stronger than they are. We can stand their cruelty. They can't stand ours.
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Science disembodies art embodies.
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Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.
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I knew I would always want to go on living with myself, however hollow I became, however diseased.
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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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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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That's the trouble with provincial life. Everyone knows everyone and there is no mystery. No romance.
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