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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For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do, they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities. – John Updike

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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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The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things. – John Updike

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It depends on the situation. I mean, on one hand theres the argument that people should be left alone on the other hand, theres the argument to wade in a stop slaughters in places like Bosnia and Kosovo and what we probably should have done in Rwanda. – Jello Biafra

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I may be alone in this, but I do sense the power of film, in that movies have the ability to literally change peoples minds. Thats pretty powerful stuff when you consider that. – Nicolas Cage

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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. – John Dryden

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When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone. – Walter Scott

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I come from a great family. Ive seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be. – Sidney Poitier

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Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with the creative impulse of the planet. – Ray Manzarek

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