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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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That a marriage ends is less than ideal but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds. – John Updike

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Marriage
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Truth should not be forced it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man. – John Updike

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Truth
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The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion. – John Updike

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She was the Judy Garland of American poetry. – James Dickey

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Poetry

This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul. – Eugenio Montale

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Poetry

Im looking for a guy who makes you want to dance and write poetry all day long. – Angela Sarafyan

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Poetry

For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music. – Eugenio Montale

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Britains great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and were not using it. – James Dyson

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For lack of an occasional expression of love, a relationship strong at the seams can wear thin in the middle. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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I love to wear lingerie. The problem is that men always rip it off too quickly. When women are dolled up in lingerie they feel sexy. So let us wear it for five minutes. – Karen McDougal

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There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time. – Napoleon I, Maxims, 1815

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