Quote by John Updike
Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone. – John Updike

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The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it. – 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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What art offers is space — a certain breathing room for the spirit. – John Updike

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Friends are very important to me, and I have always had many of them. There are probably many reasons why this is so, but two seem to me more valid than any of the others I am a naturally friendly person, and I hate to be alone. – Georg Solti

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The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be. – Anne Frank

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When anything goes digital, let alone something as immaterial as a book, there is a tendency to see it as just in the air to be taken, and to lose the sense that somebody once made it. – Graham Swift

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He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts. – John Fletcher

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To be here today is just beyond my wildest dreams. – Rick Yune

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Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by its example. – Timothy McVeigh

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