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I didn’t know at that time Emily Dickinson’s great definition, her 'Publication is not the business of poets’; being a poet is all, being known as a poet is nothing.

— John Fowles Daniel Martin (1977)

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Everything free and decent in life is being locked away in filthy little cellars by beastly people who don’t care.

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There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.

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It must essentially remain a novel of adolescence written by a retarded adolescent.

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Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

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