I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure t… - John Fowles

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I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope - an impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.

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John Robert Fowles (31 March 1926 – 5 November 2005) was an English novelist and essayist.

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