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John Fowles

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In our age it is not sex that raises its ugly head, but love.


— John Fowles


#modernity #sex #age

And I envy you. You have the one thing that matters. You have all your discoveries before you.


— John Fowles


#discovery #enlightenment #youth #age

You will see that Charles set his sights high. Intelligent idlers always have, in order to justify their idleness to their intelligence.


— John Fowles


#intelligence

Let those love now who've never loved; let those who've loved, love yet again.


— John Fowles


#love

You use your life.


— John Fowles


#inspirational

An answer is always a form of death.


— John Fowles


#answer #death #form

The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time.


— John Fowles


#great #lack #misery #our #supposed

Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.


— John Fowles


#because #laughing #look #love #men

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.


— John Fowles


#intelligent #only #planet #races #stupid

Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.


— John Fowles


#always #being #inhibit #must #ought






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Did you know about John Fowles?

Nine months and two weeks later Gladys gave birth to John Robert Fowles. With his second wife Sarah by his side Fowles died 5 miles from Lyme Regis in Axminster Hospital on 5 November 2005.

Later fictional works include The Ebony Tower Daniel Martin Mantissa and A Maggot. This was followed by The French Lieutenant's Woman a period romance set in Lyme Regis Dorset another location in which Fowles was deeply absorbed.

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