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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It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian. – John Updike

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Honesty
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For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do, they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities. – John Updike

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Body
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Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life. – John Updike

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Water
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Art does not reproduce what we see rather, it makes us see. – Paul Klee

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Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of mans cruelty and baseness. – Bryant H. McGill

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Reflexes and instincts are not pretty. It is their decoration that initiates art. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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The art of communication is the language of leadership. – James Humes

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Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile. – William Lyon Mackenzie King

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The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society. – Joe Biden

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Im not squeamish at all. As a child I dragged a dead squirrel home on my skateboard and cut it open and tried to look at its brain. – Jessica Biel

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Home

If we resist our passions, it is more because of their weakness than because of our strength. – François VI de la Rochefoucault

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Self-Control