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Quote by John Updike
Existence itself does not feel horrible it feels like an ecstasy,

Existence itself does not feel horrible it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience. – 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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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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Morning
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Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. – John Updike

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There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home. – John Stuart Mill

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I didnt go to high school, so I dont have a high school experience. I was home-schooled during high school. – Josh Hutcherson

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My parents had an experience of life that is as opposite to mine as you can imagine. – Jane Pauley

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Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another. – W. H. Auden

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Haters never win. I just think thats true about life, because negative energy always costs in the end. – Tom Hiddleston

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Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness. – Ouida

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The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia. – Hideki Tojo

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Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen. – Epictetus

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