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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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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What art offers is space — a certain breathing room for the spirit. – 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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Sometimes, to pursue a new idea, the artist must forfeit his deposit on an old idea. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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An artist cannot talk about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture. – Jean Cocteau, Newsweek, 16 May 1955

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Art is vice. You dont marry it legitimately, you rape it. – Edgar Degas

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The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art. – E. M. Forster

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Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune. – Francis Quarles

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As kids we didnt complain about being poor we talked about how rich we were going to be and made moves to get the lifestyle we aspired to by any means we could. And as soon as we had a little money, we were eager to show it. – Jay-Z

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We need to bridge the gap between the medical libraries and the hospital rooms take the information out there already, add to it, focus it, harness it – and bring it to the patient who was just diagnosed today. – Bruce Vento

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Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesnt burn up any fossil fuel, doesnt pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance. – Margaret Mead

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