"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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Source : "Self-Consciousness: Memoirs". Book by John Updike, 1989.

John Updike

#Life Quotes #Experience Quotes #Doe Quotes

“I have a 14 year old daughter now. You know, it was that time in these kids lives when these girls are becoming women and the hormones are raging. They didn't know if The Beatles were any good, they just went for it 'cause The Beatles were attractive.”
“Jonestown was supposed to be a great socialist experiment, a place where all the evil "isms" would be eradicated: racism, sexism, elitism. This appealed to blacks and white progressives alike. Fed up with racist "AmeriKKKa," they were going to start their own society, on their own terms.”

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“British women can't cook.”
“Organized religions have all the facets of organized crime, except the compassion of organized crime.”
“Unfortunately, on May 2, 2011, we killed bin Laden, but we didn't kill his message. His message lives.”

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“The case for my life... is this: that I have added something to knowledge, and helped others to add more”
“In Europe we could do it, if we fly as soon as the event is over.”
“Life is just a plain bloody mess, that's all. And people are fools.”

Source : Athol Fugard (2000). “Port Elizabeth Plays”, p.27, Oxford Paperbacks

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