Quote by John Updike
The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising

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

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Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child.& Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five. – John Updike

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Golf
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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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Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand. – Karl Marx

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If you look at the footballers, you look at our celebrity culture, we seem to be saying, This is the way you want to be. We seem to be a society that celebrates all the wrong people. – Iain Duncan Smith

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I think were living in a world where society is very difficult. – Steven Seagal

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Im interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society.We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term its quite a satisfying thing to do, isnt it? – J. K. Rowling

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The kitchens a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. Its biology, chemistry, physics. Yes, theres history. Yes, theres artistry. Yes, to all of that. But what happened there, what actually happens to the food is all science. – Alton Brown

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