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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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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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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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We talked for hours. He talked and I listened. It was like wind and sunlight. It blew all the cobwebs away.
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If you want to be true to life, start lying about it
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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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He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal.
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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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We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.
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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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That's the trouble with provincial life. Everyone knows everyone and there is no mystery. No romance.
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Science disembodies art embodies.
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I am one in a row of specimens. It's when I try to flutter out of line that he hates me. I'm meant to be dead, pinned, always the same, always beautiful. He knows that part of my beauty is being alive. but it's the dead me he wants. He wants me living-but-dead.
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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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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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Follow the accident, fear the fixed plan--that is the rule.
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He felt himself in suspension between the two worlds, the warm, neat civilization behind his back, the cool, dark mystery outside. We all write poems it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
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