Quote by John Updike
Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, thou

Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another days progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper. – John Updike

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Truth should not be forced it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man. – John Updike

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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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Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his overanimation. One can either see or be seen. – John Updike

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I pray every night before I go to sleep and every morning when I wake up. – Demi Lovato

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The attorney general would call at 5 oclock in the evening and say: Tomorrow morning we are going to try to integrate the University of Mississippi. Get us a memo on what were likely to do, and what we can do if the governor sends the National Guard there. – Harold H. Greene

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Well, when I was a kid and I watched Speed Racer, I used to always watch it in the morning with my cereal. And when I ate the cereal, I would pour soda into the cereal because we never really had milk for some reason, I dont know. – Emile Hirsch

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God has been pleased to save us during the years of war that have already passed. We pray that He may be pleased to save us to the end. But we must do our part. – Eamon de Valera

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The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin. – David Antin

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Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents. – Roger Moore

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When I was 7, my dad asked his friend to teach me. I played my first tournament competition when I was 8. I remember I shot around 125. – Yani Tseng

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