"I think people do look to writers to tell the truth in a way that nobody else quite will, not politicians or ministers or sociologists. A writer's job, is to, by way of fiction, somehow describe the way we live. And to me, this seems an important task, very worth doing, and I think also, to the reading public, it seems, even though they might not articulate it, it seems to them something worth doing also."

-- John Updike

#Jobs Quotes #Reading Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Donâ€™t be attached to visions or lights in meditation, donâ€™t rise or fall with them. Whatâ€™s so great about brightness? My flashlight has it. It canâ€™t help us rid ourselves of our suffering.”
“I think you have to play your own game and sometimes people don't realise that the play-maker runs the most kilometres on the pitch!”
“The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.”
“I definitely appreciated '60s music. My uncle and I used to take long road trips to visit my grandmother when I was going to NYU. We'd listen to Petula Clark and other 60's music and sing at the top of our lungs the whole time.”

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“Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy.”
“I love anything quiz related.”
“All life is a struggle in the dark.”
“Buying my wife a gun sort of like me saying, ' You know, I kinda want to kill myself, but I want it to be a surprise'.”

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