One degrades oneself sometimes in the effort not to be lonely.
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Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.
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Cricket remains for me the game of games, the sanspareil, the great metaphor, the best marriage ever devised of mind and body… For me it remains the Proust of pastimes, the subtlest and most poetic, the most past-and-present; whose beauty can lie equally in days, in a whole, or in one tiny phrase, a blinding split second.
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Birth: | 31st March, 1926 |
Death: | 5th November, 2005 |
Nationality: | British |
Profession: | Novelist, Teacher |
John Robert Fowles was born in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England. He was an English novelist of international stature, critically positioned between modernism and postmodernism. He studied at the University of Edinburgh and New College, Oxford. He spent his early adult life as a teacher. His first year after Oxford was spent at the University of Poitiers. He wrote several novels include: The Collector, The Magus, The French Lieutenant's Woman, Daniel Martin, Mantissa, and A Maggot.
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