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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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The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion. – John Updike

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For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do, they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities. – John Updike

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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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Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. – Gertrude Stein

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