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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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The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things. – John Updike

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The first breath of adultery is the freest after it, constraints aping marriage develop. – John Updike

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That a marriage ends is less than ideal but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds. – John Updike

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People dont want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in. – Ken Kesey

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Terms like that, Humane Society, are devised with people like me in mind, who dont care to dwell on what happens to the innocent. – Barbara Kingsolver

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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it. – Roland Barthes

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The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life. – Theodore Roosevelt

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