Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
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I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price of a book or a magazine than a small body of enlightened and responsible men administering public funds. I would rather chance my personal vision of truth striking home here and there in the chaos of publication that exists than attempt to filter it through a few sets of official, honorably public-spirited scruples.John Updike
To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given
John Updike
Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.
John Updike
The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents.
John Updike
Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us.
John Updike
Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.
John Updike
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