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It is not only species of anim...

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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Our present educational system...

Our present educational systems are all paramilitary. Their aim is to produce servants or soldiers who obey without question and who accepts their training as the best possible training. Those who are most successful in the state are those who have the most interest in prolonging the state as it is; they are also those who have the most say in the educational system, and in particular by ensuring that the educational product they want is the most highly rewarded.

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When you draw something it liv...

When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies

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The great majority of modern t...

The great majority of modern third-person narration is 'I' narration very thinly disguised.

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On the whole, dialogue is the ...

On the whole, dialogue is the most difficult thing, without any doubt. It's very difficult, unfortunately. You have to detach yourself from the notion of a lifelike quality. You see, actually lifelike, tape-recorded dialogue like this has very little to do with good novel dialogue. It's a matter of getting that awful tyranny of mimesis out of your mind, which is difficult.

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It is only when our characters...

It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live.

John Fowles 176 quotes

Because a star explodes and a ...

Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile: that what might not be, is.

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The more abhorrent a news item...

The more abhorrent a news item the more comforting it was to be the recipient, since the fact that it had happened elsewhere proved that it had not happened here, was not happening here, and would therefore never happen here.

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Men love war because it allows...

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

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Always we try to put the wild ...

Always we try to put the wild in a cage.

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But I think the most harmful c...

But I think the most harmful change brought about by Victorian science in our attitude to nature lies in the demand that our relation with it must be purposive, industrious, always seeking greater knowledge.

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Piers is always going on about...

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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He knew the world and its absu...

He knew the world and its absurdities as only an intelligent Irishman can; which is to say that where his knowledge or memory failed him, his imagination was always ready to fill the gap.

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Like all mystics (and many nov...

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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He felt himself in suspension ...

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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And I just can't live in this ...

And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did.

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It was too exactly as imagined...

It was too exactly as imagined to be true. But I felt as gladly and expectantly disorientated, as happily and alertly alone, as Alice in Wonderland.

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Thomas Beecham was a pompous l...

Thomas Beecham was a pompous little band-master who stood against everything creative in the art of his time.

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Edith Sitwell's interest in ar...

Edith Sitwell's interest in art was largely confined to portraits of herself.

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Alive. Alive in the way that d...

Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.

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