Quote by John Updike
For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are message

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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It rots a writers brain, it cretinises you. You say the same thing again and again, and when you do that happily youre well on the way to being a cretin. Or a politician. – John Updike

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Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another days progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper. – John Updike

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We are so curiously made that one atom put in the wrong place in our original structure will often make us unhappy for life. – William Godwin

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If there is any true temple, true gurdwara, true mosque or true church, it is our own body. This place God has designed for Himself, and He sits within it. – Maharaj Charan Singh Ji

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My body is a bulletin board, transmitting my condition. – Terri Guillemets

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The mind can cook up very subtle syndromes to throw at our bodies. – Terri Guillemets

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