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

Other quotes by John Updike

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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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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Existence itself does not feel horrible it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience. – John Updike

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Experience
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No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from lifes slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone. – Martha Beck

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Wisdom comes alone through suffering. – Aeschylus

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alone

An artist is always alone – if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness. – Henry Miller

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Myspace alone has just over 80 million users and ranks as the sixth most popular English language website and the eighth most popular site in the world. – Mike Fitzpatrick

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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. – Mark Twain

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I have never considered it my business to disabuse someone of a belief that makes life tolerable for them. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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But its a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn. – Emma Watson

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More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause. – Rose Kennedy

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