Quote by John Updike
I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves m

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

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Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. – John Updike

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Customs and convictions change respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art. – John Updike

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What art offers is space — a certain breathing room for the spirit. – John Updike

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Im not saying that theres anything better than mated bliss at its best, but Im saying that living alone is as good in its own way. But we havent quite given ourselves permission to recognize that. – Barbara Feldon

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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life. – Tennessee Williams

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He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything. – Baltasar Gracian

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You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends portraits hang and look thereon Irelands history in their lineaments trace think where mans glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends. – William Butler Yeats

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