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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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Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. – John Updike

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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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I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone. – John Updike

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Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man. – Helen Rowland

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How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality? – Lou Reed

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If you cannot learn to love real art at least learn to hate sham art. – William Morris

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Art

In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event. – Theodore Bikel

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Art

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When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than was there before. – Clifton Fadiman

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For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction. – Michelle Obama

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The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors possessions, than to the imagined reform of New England. – Peter Stuyvesant

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