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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.

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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What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.

What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.

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Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

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I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

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Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.

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The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.

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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

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You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.

You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.

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