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We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a grea

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

Other quotes by John Updike

You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it. – John Updike

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Graduation
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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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Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces. – Marcel Proust

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Sanity

You should listen to your heart, and not the voices in your head. – Matt Groening, The Simpsons, spoken by the character Marge Simpson

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Sanity

If we werent all crazy, we would go insane. – Jimmy Buffett

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Sanity

Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys ones equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the labors of the mind which incessantly contradict what they have just established. – Georges Bataille

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People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours. – Henry A. Kissinger

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Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now its really bad because everything weve done is de-humanizing education. Its destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship. – William Glasser

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For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace. – Dennis Ritchie

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How badly do you want it? – George E. Allen

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