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John Updike

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Nasihat

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

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Keberanian

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

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Cinta

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

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Kreativitas

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

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Kreativitas

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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Pendidikan

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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Kehidupan

Existence itself does not feel horrible it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.

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Kepemimpinan

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

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Kehidupan

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

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Kepemimpinan

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.

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Cinta

We are most alive when we're in love.

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Pendidikan

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

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Pernikahan

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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Pernikahan

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

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Kehidupan

Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.

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Kesabaran

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

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Kreativitas

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

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Kehidupan

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

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Kreativitas

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

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Kehidupan

Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them.

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