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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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Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. – John Updike

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Poetry
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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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Interviews
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When you come in to court as a plaintiff or as a defendant, it is terribly important that you look up at the bench and feel that that person represents you and will understand you, that that person is reflective of our community and of our society. – Michael Bloomberg

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Society

It is in Saudi Arabias best interest to allow women to fully participate in its society, and this includes the right to vote and run for office. – Barbara Boxer

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Society

I think every artist should follow their vision, their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for. – Serj Tankian

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Society

Drama lives on conflict. If youre trying to deal with social issues seriously, theres no way of avoiding violence, which is so present in society. – Michael Haneke

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Society

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Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts. – Ernest Hemingway

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Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness. – Joseph Addison

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Confidence

I swam my brains out. – Mark Spitz

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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated. – Proverb

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