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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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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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Poetry
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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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I believe in the sun even if it isnt shining. I believe in love even when I am alone. I believe in God even when He is silent. – Anon.

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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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