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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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That a marriage ends is less than ideal but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds. – John Updike

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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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Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. – Earl Wilson

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Looking back, you realize that everything would have explained itself if you had only stopped interrupting. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. – Patrick Henry

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Experience is never limited, and it is never complete it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue. – Henry James

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There is more difference within the sexes than between them. – Ivy Compton-Burnett, Mother and Son

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In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female. – Cyril Connolly

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War has rules, mud wrestling has rules – politics has no rules. – Ross Perot

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