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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

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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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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Other Quotes from
Experience
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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nations proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations. – William Feather

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Experience

Intuition is the very force or activity of the soul in its experience through whatever has been the experience of the soul itself. – Henry Reed

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Experience

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice. – Harry S. Truman

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Experience

I was an only child. Ive known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents. – Jane Smiley

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Experience

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One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty. – Sir Edward Coke

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Innocence

Violence is a very ugly thing. Violence is often so casual on film, and made to look so cool and so sexy, but violence is a repulsive, repugnant act that human beings inflict on each other. It shouldnt seem to be cool and sexy, ever really. – James Purefoy

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cool

In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, and go as brave as the zodiac. In age, we put out another sort of perspiration,—gout, fever, rheumatism, caprice, doubt, fretting, and avarice. – Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), “Fate,” The Conduct of Life

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Rainbows

Im not driven to get back into politics. Its not on my top five things to do before I die, but saying that, I may be in politics in the next year or the next ten years. Ive been on the front line for 12 years, four in state government, eight on the national level. – J. C. Watts

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Government