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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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Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life. – 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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The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it. – John Updike

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Im ultimately a widow and a single mother, whos not even getting to be a mother right now. I am so alone, its freaky. – Courtney Love

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We dont accomplish anything in this world alone… and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of ones life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something. – Sandra Day OConnor

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I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor. – Laurence Sterne

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For each one of us stands alone in the midst of a universe. – John Buchanan Robinson

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