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John Updike

"TV families and your own are hard to tell apart, except your isn't interrupted every six minutes by commercials and theirs don't get bogged down into nothingness, a state where nothing happens, no skit, no zany visitors, no outburst on the laugh track, nothing at all but boredom and a lost feeling, especially when you get up in the morning and the moon is still shining and men are making noisy bets on the first tee."

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"TV families and your own are hard to tell apart, except your isn't interrupted every six minutes by commercials and theirs don't get bogged down into nothingness, a state where nothing happens, no skit, no zany visitors, no outburst on the laugh track, nothing at all but boredom and a lost feeling, especially when you get up in the morning and the moon is still shining and men are making noisy bets on the first tee."

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Donna Grant

"To change reality, change your thoughts and perceptions."

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Donna Grant

"It is so sad that too many individuals spend their entire lives trying to impress people who are mostly clueless about their true purpose on earth."

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Donna Grant

"He woke once more to external reality, looked round him, knew what he saw- knewit, with a sinking sense of horror and disgust, for the recurrent deliriumof his days and nights, the nightmare of swarming indistinguishable sameness."

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Donna Grant

"We all know there is something wrong with our culture, the state of our world, and with ourselves."

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Donna Grant

"But alas, the world is not a wish-granting factory."

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Donna Grant

"Real? Real depends upon your perspective, Annabelle. People never see life exactly the same way. The world is what you think it is."

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Donna Grant

"The consequence of your illusions is your reality."

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Donna Grant

"Belief has nothing to do with facts,especially for the unbelievable facts."

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Donna Grant

"The worldly life is constantly ablaze. To keep expectation, that it will extinguish, is wrong. So then we too should say to it, 'you can keep on burning!"

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Donna Grant

"If I'm surprised at where I'm at, it's probably because I'm not listening to the reality that listening to the voices that I've listened to have put me here. So, maybe I should be less surprised and more disappointed."

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

Inspirational

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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 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."

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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
"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
"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."

Marriage

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John Updike
"From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few."

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John Updike
"When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas."

Mind

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