Quote by John Updike
Customs and convictions change respectable people are the last to

Customs and convictions change respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art. – John Updike

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A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other peoples patience. – John Updike

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Patience
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Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another days progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper. – John Updike

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Morning
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I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone. – John Updike

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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. – Paul Cezanne

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Art is mans constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. – Chinua Achebe

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Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame. – Ville Valo

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The idea is, if I cant heal from my art, then how can you heal? – Maynard James Keenan

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Audacity augments courage hesitation, fear. – Publilius Syrus

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