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

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Experience
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Praise the sea; on shore remain. – John Florio

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Water

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

The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out. – Annie Dillard

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Water

There is indeed, perhaps, no better way to hold communion with the sea than sitting in the sun on the veranda of a fishermen’s cafe. – Joseph W. Beach

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Water

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Habit is thus the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor. – William James, The Principles of Psychology

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There can be no keener revelation of a societys soul than the way in which it treats its children. – Nelson Mandela

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They read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans, pro or con, over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there. – Mike Schmidt

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