Quote by John Updike
Truth should not be forced it should simply manifest itself, like

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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The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things. – John Updike

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What art offers is space — a certain breathing room for the spirit. – 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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You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say youre cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism. – W. Somerset Maugham

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Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it. – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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There are more martyrs to nonsense than truth, truth preferring missionaries. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out. – Rabindranath Tagore

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To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm. – Friedrich August von Hayek

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