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Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then retur

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went. – 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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Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child.& Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five. – 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 careful driver is one who honks his horn when he goes through a red light. – Henry Morgan

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I feel like I am diagonally parked in a parallel universe. – Author Unknown

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If a woman driver ahead of you signals a left turn, be careful, she may turn left. – Source Unknown

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Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams. – Mary Ellen Kelly

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My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life, is what keeps me moving forward. – Kenny Loggins

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And I leave the children the long, long days to be merry in in a thousand ways, and the Night, and the trail of the Milky Way to wonder at…. – Williston Fish, “A Last Will,” 1898

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Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life — its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness — conjoin to dull our sensory faculties. – Susan Sontag

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To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement. – Joseph Addison

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