I was not a poet. I felt no consolation in this knowledge, … - John Fowles

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I was not a poet. I felt no consolation in this knowledge, but only a red anger that evolution could allow such sensitivity and such inadequacy to coexist in the same mind. In one ego, my ego, screaming like a hare caught in a gin.

John Fowles

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

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