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Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without

Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life. – John Updike

Other quotes by John Updike

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. – John Updike

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Poetry
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John Updike
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Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone. – John Updike

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alone
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Other Quotes from
Water
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Water flows humbly to the lowest level.
Nothing is weaker than water,
Yet for overcoming what is hard and strong,
Nothing surpasses it. – Lao-Tzu

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Water

There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates. – James Russell Lowell

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Water

The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness. – Joseph Conrad

Category:
Water

When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a grape, or else a tub of malt. These are the most reliable filters yet invented. – Samuel Butler

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Water

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Marriage ceremony: an incredible metaphysical sham of watching God and the law being dragged into the affairs of your family. – O.C. Ogilvie

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Attention to health is lifes greatest hindrance. – Plato

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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else. – Charles Baudelaire

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I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements, the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing. – Sheryl Crow

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