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America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy. - John Updike

America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy. – John Updike

Other quotes by John Updike

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. – John Updike

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Poetry
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The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. – John Updike

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Education
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Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. – John Updike

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Government
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Other Quotes from
America
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America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land. – Philip James Bailey

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America

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. – Abraham Lincoln

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America

We Americans have no commission from God to police the world. – Benjamin Harrison, address to Congress, 1888

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America

Not merely a nation but a nation of nations. – Lyndon B. Johnson

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America

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If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive. – Eleonora Duse

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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver. – Edmund Burke

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Flattery

Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course — the distance between your ears. – Bobby Jones

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Books are challenging and inspirational to me. – Amy Sedaris

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