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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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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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A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other peoples patience. – John Updike

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Patience
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I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone. – John Updike

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alone
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I didnt need clothes. I was allowed the opportunity to act out moments you dont get the opportunity to experience in your own life, let alone as a character in a film. I didnt feel naked. – Marguerite Moreau

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I am alone, some people help me, but, basically, I can do what I want. – Sergei Bubka

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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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Im never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone. – Scipio Africanus

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