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Quote by John Updike
What art offers is space — a certain breathing room for the

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

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Dreams come true without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. – John Updike

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Dreams
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Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another days progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper. – John Updike

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Morning
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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency. – John Updike

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Wisdom
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Art
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The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of mens lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque. – John Ruskin

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Art

Diplomacy, n. is the art of letting somebody else have your way. – David Frost

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Art

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when its all over. – Octavia Butler

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Art

Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium. – Henry Rollins

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Art

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The whole world is about three drinks behind. – Humphrey Bogart

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God did not intend religion to be an exercise club. – Naguib Mahfouz

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Ceremony was but devised at first to set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, recanting goodness, sorry ere Tis shown; but where there is true friendship, there needs none. – William Shakespeare

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Ive been lucky to travel through quite a bit of Europe and Australia, but I would love to do Asia and South America and South Africa. – Dianna Agron

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Travel