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"The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it"

- John Updike

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This quote is written / told by John Updike between March 18, 1932 and January 27, 2009. He/she was a famous Novelist from USA. The author also have 45 other quotes.

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