Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
John Updike
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More quotes by John Updike
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- What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.
- 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.
- 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.