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Quote by John Updike
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the

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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Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. – John Updike

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Government
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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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That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said. – Robert Creeley

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Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know. – Joseph Roux

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Poetry

Its bad poetry executed by people that cant sing. Thats my definition of Rap. – Peter Steele

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PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy. – Diane Wakoski

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So much of it is the design of the shot or the motion of the character its the work you do so that it has the same things that are in the movie. In just a few frames its got to communicate something clearly and dramatically. – Dennis Muren

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Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future. – Aneurin Bevan

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If youre a Christian you dont sit there and worry about what somebody else is doing, if theyre happy and theyre committed in a relationship. – Howard Stern

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Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the pictures in museums with all our stupidities, all our mistakes, all our poverty of spirit. We have turned them into petty and ridiculous things. – Pablo Picasso

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