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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Existence itself does not feel horrible it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience. – John Updike

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Experience
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It rots a writers brain, it cretinises you. You say the same thing again and again, and when you do that happily youre well on the way to being a cretin. Or a politician. – John Updike

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Interviews
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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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Patience is the art of hoping. – Luc de Clapiers

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Art

Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the wests stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of arts assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth. – Camille Paglia

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Art

It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrinos work. From the time I first saw his art, in the mid-eighties, I almost always dismissed it as mannered, Romantic, formulaic, conceptualist-formalist heavy-metal boy-art abstraction. – Jerry Saltz

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Art

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. – Twyla Tharp

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Art

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Truthfully, being pregnant is changing me as a person. Each day is part of this amazing journey that has completely shifted the focus of my life and made me reevaluate my personal and professional goals. – Holly Madison

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What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul. – Jewish Proverb

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Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality. – Plato

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A man surprised is half beaten. – Thomas Fuller

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