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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 rots a writers brain, it cretinises you. You say the same thing again and again, and when you do that happily youre well on the way to being a cretin. Or a politician. – John Updike

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Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his overanimation. One can either see or be seen. – John Updike

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So let man consider of what he was created; he was created of gushing water issuing between the loins and the breast-bones. – Quran

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I have seen the sea when it is strormy and wild; when it is quiet and serene; when it is dark and moody. And in all its moods, I see myself. – Martin D. Buxbaum (1912–1991), in Table Talk

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How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is clearly Ocean. – Arthur C. Clarke

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Filthy water cannot be washed. – African Proverb

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Cut your morning devotions into your personal grooming. You would not go out to work with a dirty face. Why start the day with the face of your soul unwashed? – Robert A. Cook

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Id much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and theyre the first to be rescued off sinking ships. – Gilda Radner

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We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before. – James Truslow Adams

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I love the idea of marriage. I definitely want marriage and little Kellans running around. – Kellan Lutz

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