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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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"Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world."
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"The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?"
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"I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?"
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"In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich."
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"The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world."
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"In some parts of the world there is very little tidal movement."
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"Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world."
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"Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy."
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"There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep."
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"I have X'd myself from your world."
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"For him the tragedy of Homo sapiens is that the least fit to survive breed the most."
Humanity
"In our age it is not sex that raises its ugly head, but love."
Sensitivity
"I love honesty and freedom and giving. 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."
Lifestyle
"You have shared your secret. I think you will find it to be an unburdening in many other ways. You have very considerable natural advantages. You have nothing to fear from life. A day will come when these recent unhappy years may seem no more than that cloud-stain over there upon Chesil Bank. You shall stand in sunlight-and smile at your own past sorrows."
Healing
"An answer is always a form of death."
Death
"Nine-tenths of all artistic creation derives its basic energy from the engine of repression and sublimation, and well beyond the strict Freudian definition of those terms.John Fowles attended new College in Oxford. You might like to see my collection of Oxford trees at Rob's Bookshop."
Creativity
"I left a pause. 'You sound like a certain kind of surgeon. A lot more interested in the operation than the patient.' 'I should not like to be in the hands of a surgeon who did not take that view."
Responsibility
"I knew that on that island one was driven back into the past. There was so much space, so much silence, so few meetings that one too easily saw out of the present, and then the past seemed ten times closer than it was."
Memory
"That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects."
Relationship
"Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want."
Relationship
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