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Doe Quotes by John Updike
- The difficulty is, all swing thoughts decay, like radium. What burnt up the course on Wednesday has turned to lead on Sunday. Yet it does…
- Writers take words seriously-perha ps the last professional class that does-and they struggle to steer their own through the crosswinds of meddling editors and careless…
- The New England spirit does not seek solutions in a crowd; raw light and solitariness are less dreaded than welcomed as enhancers of our essential…
- New York is of course many cities, and an exile does not return to the one he left.
- Looking foolish does the spirit good.
- An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.
- Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.
- The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else.
- Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens; as we get older we are exempted…
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- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Nature does nothing in vain. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- True information does good. — Julian Assange
- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson
- Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation. — Bashar al-Assad
- No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy… — Francis of Assisi
- Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything… — Francis of Assisi