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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Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life. – John Updike

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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner. – John Updike

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The first breath of adultery is the freest after it, constraints aping marriage develop. – John Updike

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A moments insight is sometimes worth a lifes experience. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it. – Margaret Fuller

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Acting is not a mystery. Theres nothing that I know that other actors dont know. We all act, were all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience. – Vincent DOnofrio

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If we didnt want to upset anyone, we would make films about sewing, but even that could be dangerous. But I think finally, in a film, it is how the balance is and the feelings are. But I think there has to be those contrasts and strong things within a film for the total experience. – David Lynch

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To array a mans will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. – Henry Ward Beecher

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I write plays and movies, I live and work at the borderline between word and image just as any cartoonist or illustrator does. Im not a pure writer. I use words as the score for kinetic imagistic representations. – Tony Kushner

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Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application. – Gene Fowler

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Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself. – Niccolo Machiavelli

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