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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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It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian. – John Updike

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Honesty
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Existence itself does not feel horrible it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience. – John Updike

Category:
Experience
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We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable. – John Updike

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Sanity
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Other Quotes from
Water
category

Of a water that flows,
With a lullaby sound,
From a spring but a very few
Feet under ground —
From a cavern not very far
Down under ground. – Edgar Allan Poe

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

Category:
Water

The great sea makes one a great sceptic. – Richard Jefferies

Category:
Water

Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink.
Water, water everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink.
The very deep did rot: O Christ!
That ever this should be!
Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs
Upon the slimy sea. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Water

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One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention. – Clifton Paul Fadiman

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Friendship

When I started CNN, I made the decision to stay out of endorsing candidates, and let the doers make up their own minds about politics, that it wasnt going to come from me. – Ted Turner

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Politics

My mom and my fathers birthday are on the same day. – Victor Cruz

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Birthday

America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success. – Sigmund Freud

Category:
Success