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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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Leigh-on-Sea
Essex
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Like all mystics (and many novelists, not least the present one) he is baffled, a child, before the real now far happier out of it, in a narrative past or a prophetic future, locked inside that weird tence grammar does not allow, the imaginary present.
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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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One degrades oneself sometimes in the effort not to be lonely.
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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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We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.
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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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That's the trouble with provincial life. Everyone knows everyone and there is no mystery. No romance.
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Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.
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Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart.
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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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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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I have a strange illusion quite often. I think I've become deaf. I have to make a little noise to prove I'm not. I clear my throat to show myself that everything is normal. It's like the little Japanese girl they found in the ruins of Hiroshima. Everything dead and she was singing to her doll.
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To despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.
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All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one.
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Time is not a road - it is a room.
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The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.
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Follow the accident, fear the fixed plan--that is the rule.
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Content is a word unknown to life it is also a word unknown to man.
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If you want to be true to life, start lying about it
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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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