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John Updike

"Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life."

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"Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life."

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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"Neither a borrower nor a lender be: For loan oft loses both itself and friend And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry."

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"Life is a wave of love in the ocean of time."

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"Every idea travels to somewhere but some ideas travel to everywhere, the great ideas!"

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"How magical can a person be when she is blessed with infinite kindness?"

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"A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life."

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"If the universe is movement, it will not be in one direction only. We think of our lives as linear but it is the spin of the earth that allows us to observe time. Walk with me."

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"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough."

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"How many homes are broken because of men and women who are unfaithful! God will not hold you guiltless! There is a day of reckoning. “Be sure your sin will find you out” (Numbers 32:23 ESV). They will find you out in your own family life here in your relationship with your mate, they will find you out in the life to come."

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"I know more about what it's like to be elderly and infirm and kind of stupid, the way you get forgetful, but on the other hand I'm a littler, wiser, dare we say? The word 'wisdom' has kind of faded out of our vocabulary, but yeah, I'm a little wiser."
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"There is no such thing as static happiness. Happiness is a mixed thing, a thing compounded of sacrifices, and losses, and betrayals."
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"An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause."
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"No matter how cheerful and blameless the day's activities have been, when you wake in the middle of the night there is guilt in the air, a gnawing feeling of everything being slightly off, wrong - you in the wrong, and the world too, as if darkness is a kind of light that shows us the depth we are about to fall into."
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"Having children is something we think we ought to do because our parents did it, but when it is over the children are just other members of the human race, rather disappointingly."
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"My first thought, as a child, was that the artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and that he does it without destroying something else. A kind of refutation of the conservation of matter. That still seems to me its central magic, its core of joy."
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"But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography."
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"Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea."
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"The difficulty with humourists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't whichever seems likelier to win an effect."
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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."
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