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

Other quotes by John Updike

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

Category:
Honesty
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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

Category:
Experience
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The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it. – John Updike

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Society
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Art
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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still. – Dorothea Lange

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Art

You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it. – Gustave Flaubert

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Art

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty. – Alfred de Vigny

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Art

Architecture begins where engineering ends. – Walter Gropius

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Art

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A place for everything, everything in its place. – Benjamin Franklin

Category:
inspirational

Ive completed the first part of my preparations without injury problems. My speed is good and Im doing lots of volume for strength. – Jonathan Brown

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strength

When I grew up we had gym at school, two or three dance classes after school, ice skating lessons, and all sorts of sports at our finger tips. We werent glued to computers because they didnt exist, so being active was all we knew. – Lisa Loeb

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Computers

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries. – Mark Twain, quoted in More Maxims of Mark compiled by Merle Johnson, 1927

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