Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

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John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic. One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once (the others being Booth Tarkington, William Faulkner, and Colson Whitehead), Updike published more...

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That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Adversity in immunological doses has its uses; more than that crushes.

The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep showing up as if the fun's just started.

world culture ending continuation

You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.

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My grandmother would sometimes choke on her food, and have to go out on the side porch in Shillington, where one or another member of the family would follow and hammer on her back while she clung, gagging, to the porch rail.… I also would choke now and then. My album of sore moments includes a memory of crouching above my tray in the Lowell House dining hall at Harvard, miserably retching at something in my throat that would not go up or down, while half-swallowed milk dribbled from my mouth and the other students at the table silently took up their trays and moved away. On the edge of asphyxia, I sympathized with them and wished that I, too, could shun me.

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We need men who can dream of things that never were.

—John F. Kennedy

Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them.

They say dreams are the windows of the soul—take a peek and you can see the inner workings, the nuts and bolts.

—Henry Bromel

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.

—Germaine Greer

You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?

—George Bernard Shaw

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