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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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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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A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other peoples patience. – John Updike

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Its been my experience that every time I think I know where its at, its usually somewhere else. – Blake Edwards

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God is only a great imaginative experience. – David Herbert Lawrence

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The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and its very limited in what it can do logically. Its an existential experience – there and then gone. – Bill Moyers

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