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“The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.”

John Updike · Religion

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Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Wisdom

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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.

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I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

Loneliness