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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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Truth should not be forced it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man. – John Updike

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Truth
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The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things. – John Updike

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Golf
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The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. – John Updike

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Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is choking. – William E. Simon

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Breathing

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

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Breathing

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure. – Oprah Winfrey

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Breathing

Breathing is the greatest pleasure in life. – Giovanni Papini

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Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit down and do it seriously. – Aaron Swartz

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[T]he governess… looked upon him [Mr. Swiveller] as a literary gentleman of eccentric habits, and of a most prodigious talent in quotation. – Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop, 1841

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God walked down the stairs of heaven with a Baby in His arms. – Paul Scherer

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An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination. – Eduard Hanslick

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