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

Other quotes by John Updike

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world. – John Updike

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Leadership
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I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone. – John Updike

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alone
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It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian. – John Updike

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Honesty
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Experience
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Everybodys got one killer story. It doesnt take talent to tell that story, it just takes experience. – Kevin Smith

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Experience

The most experience I had in the criminology field is playing a thug as an actor. That was my first paid job. The police academy at the college was paying people to reenact the calls that potential cops would get. So I got to play thugs and people who were unruly. – Jeremy Renner

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Experience

I did a play called Throne of Straw when I was 11, at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. It became really clear to me at that point that I enjoyed acting more than any other experience I was having. – Kiefer Sutherland

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Experience

I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of the real experience of my life, and somehow this has come over as true and valid and persuasive. – David Ogilvy

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Experience

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Studio press agents make up anything they want to, and reporters go along with it. One flack created the legend that I had been blown up in an air crash during the war, and my face had to be put back together by way of plastic surgery. If it is a bionic face, why didnt they do a better job of it? – Jack Palance

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Sports :: Other

He who lives by medical prescriptions lives miserably. – Proverb

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Medicine

Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed. – Theodor Herzl

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Failure

The people who run a university are far more qualified and intelligent in handling people than someone who inherited his money and used it to buy a pro team. – Hayden Fry

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Money