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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The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion. – John Updike

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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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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that thats becoming like a lost art in American cinema. – Quentin Tarantino

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If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. – John F. Kennedy

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I choose films for their artistic value. I dont need a mansion or a Jaguar. When I leave this Earth, I wont take any money with me. All I will leave behind will be my art. – Brad Renfro

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Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge. – Stendhal

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