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

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Art
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John Updike
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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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You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it. – John Updike

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Graduation
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When you own your breath, nobody can steal your peace. – Author Unknown

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To live is not breathing it is action. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Learn how to exhale, the inhale will take care of itself. – Carla Melucci Ardito

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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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Many people can listen to their cat more intelligently than they can listen to their own despised body. Because they attend to their pet in a cherishing way, it returns their love. Their body, however, may have to let out an earth-shattering scream in order to be heard at all. – Marion Woodman

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