• 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.

  John Updike
  American writer and criticus 1932-2009
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1. convictions
2. respectable
3. reflections
4. mirror
5. fresh
6. facts

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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. by : John Updike

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