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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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It rots a writers brain, it cretinises you. You say the same thing again and again, and when you do that happily youre well on the way to being a cretin. Or a politician. – John Updike

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We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable. – John Updike

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Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. – John Updike

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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below. – Alexander Pope

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Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now, let alone any more, is well known. – Nigel Farage

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I personally love to run outdoor fitness trails. I love the meditative value I get when out alone, challenging myself to run faster and higher. – Laurieann Gibson

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