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John Updike

"To be a human being is to be in a state of tension between your appetites and your dreams, and the social realities around you and your obligations to your fellow man."

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Donna Grant

"Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity."

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Donna Grant

"Murphy watched me thoughtfully for several empty seconds. Then she said, very gently, "You're a good man, Harry."I swallowed and bowed my head, made humble by the tone of her voice and the expression on her face, more than the words themselves.Not always rational," she said, smiling. "But you're the best kind of crazy."

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Donna Grant

"We are very simple human until we learn to use the power of our divine love."

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Donna Grant

"A poet warrior realizes both the brutality and the beauty in life, and apprehends that the suffering we tragically endure is partly what makes us human. What also makes us human is the ability to love, the ability to stand in nature's presence, and to nurture this earthly paradise to tend to our family's needs."

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Donna Grant

"Instead of narrowing our allegiances to only include our favored nation, let us sing an anthem to the marvelous human being."

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Donna Grant

"Help humanity to help yourself. Love humanity to love yourself."

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Donna Grant

"Let us be wild and weird with love for humanity."

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Donna Grant

"We are creatures taken seriously by the Earth, because we can severely affect the fate of the Earth, but we are in no way taken seriously by the Universe yet!"

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Donna Grant

"Humility is one of the best expressions of self respect."

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Donna Grant

"We tend to deny our humanity because in accepting the fullness of it, we would need to confess how little we've done with it."

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John Updike
"Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered."

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

Religion

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John Updike
"A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world."

Leadership

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John Updike
"A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens."

Choice

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John Updike
"Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art."

Art

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John Updike
"What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit."

Art

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John Updike
"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."

Writing

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John Updike
"The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop."

Marriage

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John Updike
"Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner."

Marriage

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John Updike
"America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy."

Society

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