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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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The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion. – John Updike

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For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do, they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities. – John Updike

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Both my husband and I give a lot of ourselves in what we do because that is our public lives but in my private life, I have an intrinsic right to be left alone. – Ashley Judd

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

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