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

Other quotes by John Updike

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other peoples patience. – John Updike

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Patience
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The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it. – John Updike

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Society
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Existence itself does not feel horrible it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience. – John Updike

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Experience
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The secular elites are so terrified of telling the truth about radical Islam. When you talk about the radical Islamists, we have got to get straight and get serious and talk about it in the right way. – Newt Gingrich

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I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy. – Kelly Miller

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Truth

A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth. – Aesop

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Truth

The lawyers truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency. – Henry David Thoreau

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Truth

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Health care reform, the marquee legislative accomplishment of the Obama administrations first term, was passed before we entered the world of divided government. – Eliot Spitzer

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Government

Im kidding about having only a few dollars. I might have a few dollars more. – James Brown

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You dont need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change. – Nicholas D. Kristof

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positive