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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

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Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went. – John Updike

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What art offers is space — a certain breathing room for the spirit. – John Updike

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Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot. – John Updike

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Water
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The best man is like water.
Water is good; it benefits all things and does not compete with them.
It dwells in lowly places that all disdain.
This is why it is so near to Tao. – Lao-Tzu

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Water

I spin on the circle of wave upon wave of the sea. – Pablo Neruda

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Water

Still falls the rain — dark as the world of man, black as our loss — blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross. – Dame Edith Sitwell

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The sea is as near as we come to another world. – Anne Stevenson, “North Sea Off Carnoustie”

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Its long past time we started focusing on the solutions that actually keep women healthy, instead of using basic aspects of womens health as a tool of cultural, moral, and political control. – Martha Plimpton

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Persistence is a strong will. Obstinance is a strong won – Anon.

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Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear. – William Shakespeare

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The best situation is where they cast you and then they trust you. – Illeana Douglas

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