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Quote by John Updike
We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one. - John

We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one. – John Updike

Other quotes by John Updike

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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Celebrity
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The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion. – John Updike

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Religion
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Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. – African Proverb

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Adversity

Bygone troubles are good to tell. – Yiddish Proverb

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Adversity

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel. – Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Orthodoxy, 1909

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Adversity

Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower. – Jean Paul Richter

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We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often. – Sir Winston Churchill

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Of all the people I have ever known, those who have pursued their dreams and failed have lived a much more fulfilling life than those who have put their dreams on a shelf for fear of failure. – Author Unknown

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Risk

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people. – Ezra Pound

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War

One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it. – Francesco Guicciardini

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Imitation