John Updike's Quote - We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a grea

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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

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What art offers is space â€” a certain breathing room for the spirit. – John Updike

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Customs and convictions change respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art. – John Updike

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Truth should not be forced it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man. – John Updike

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

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It is better to be a little mad than commonplace. – Victor Cherbuliez, Samuel Brohl and Partner, 1877, translated from French (trans

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A lunatic may be – Edgar Allan Poe

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Sanity is madness put to good uses. – George Santayana, Little Essays

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Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out. – Robert Hewison

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I married beneath me â€” all women do. – Nancy Astor, speech, Oldham, England, 1951

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We come in many different shapes and sizes, and we need to support each other and our differences. Our beauty is in our differences. – Carre Otis

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Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone. – Germaine Greer

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