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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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Dreams come true without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. – John Updike

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Dreams
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Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his overanimation. One can either see or be seen. – John Updike

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Celebrity
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Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life. – John Updike

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Water
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Im ultimately a widow and a single mother, whos not even getting to be a mother right now. I am so alone, its freaky. – Courtney Love

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No enterprise, small or large, public or private, can remain self-governing, let alone successful, so deeply in hock to others as we are about to be. – Mitch Daniels

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Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely. – Mortimer Adler

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A movie like House of the Dead with around $7 million budget or Alone in the Dark with around $16 million budget are much easier to make profit than the typical $50 million major motion picture. – Uwe Boll

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Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith. – Author Unknown

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Teenage readers also have a different relationship with the authors whose work they value than adult readers do. I loved Toni Morrison, but I dont have any desire to follow her on Twitter. I just want to read her books. – John Green

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We must learn to tailor our concepts to fit reality, instead of trying to stuff reality into our concepts. – Victor Daniels

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