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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Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone. – John Updike

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alone
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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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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency. – John Updike

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All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest – never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership. – Ann Landers

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The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third. – Voltaire

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A mans work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened. – Albert Camus

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I love to collect modern art. – Maria Sharapova

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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. – Ogden Nash

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The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone else he can blame it on. – Robert Bloch

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Ever since I was a little kid, Ive felt comfortable in a suit. It all started when my mom bought me a three-piece Pierre Cardin suit. I wore that thing everywhere. Eventually I realized I was going to be the kid who got beat up in school, but I kept wearing it. – Paul Feig

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He wants you all to Himself to put His loving, divine arms around you. – Charles Stanley

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