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

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The first breath of adultery is the freest after it, constraints aping marriage develop. – John Updike

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The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. – John Updike

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I think we need one recognized, respected public figure to make a tough, blunt statement on just what Reagans record is and what he might do to the country, let alone the Republican Party before Christmas. – Robert Teeter

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Let there be no mistake. A gay man alone could never begin to replicate the inner workings of the female mind. – Michael Patrick King

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I love the solitude of being on a plane and finally getting to read an entire book and being left alone. – Christina Ricci

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