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

Other quotes by John Updike

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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Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. – 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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When you own your breath, nobody can steal your peace. – Author Unknown

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He lives most life whoever breathes most air. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places? – Mary Oliver

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The wisest one-word sentence? Breathe. – Terri Guillemets

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Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness. – Leonardo da Vinci

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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard. – Carl Sandburg

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Strange to say what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition. – Samuel Pepys

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