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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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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency. – 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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The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things. – John Updike

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I dont want people to sit there and objectively watch the film. I want them to experience it as something thats under their skin, so you try to make the films really tactile. – Danny Boyle

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All that I know I learned after I was thirty. – Georges Clemenceau

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It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience. – Immanuel Kant

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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues. – Abigail Adams

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We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done. – Book Of Common Prayer

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Love comes when manipulation stops when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable. – Joyce Brothers

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