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There was a beauty here bigger than the hurtling beauty of basketball, a beauty refined from country pastures, a game of solitariness, of waiting, waiting for the pitcher to complete his gaze toward first base and throw his lightning, a game whose very taste, of spit and dust and grass and sweat and leather and sun, was America (John Updike Quotes)
The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness. Sometimes, therefore, a door opens onto a hallway impossibly, and the placement of our heating ducts and storage space borders on the irresponsible. I have great trouble, myself, in imagining the floor plans of split-level homes, though I feel they are important sites of the American condition (John Updike Quotes)
The fiction writer is the ombudsman who argues our humble, dubious case in the halls of eternal record (John Updike Quotes)
The cloud of the consommé's warmth enveloped her face and revived her poise. In the liquid a slice of lemon lay at fetal peace (John Updike Quotes)
Her hair had been going gray as long as he could remember; she bundled it behind in a bun held with hairpins that he frequently found on the floor when he lived boyishly close to the carpet (John Updike Quotes)
The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and that he does it without destroying something else. A kind of refutation of the conservation of matter. That still seems to me its central magic, its core of joy (John Updike Quotes)
Writers take words seriously-perhaps the last professional class that does-and they struggle to steer their own through the crosswinds of meddling editors and careless typesetters and obtuse and malevolent reviewers into the lap of the ideal reader (John Updike Quotes)
It's been the same story ever since I can remember, ever since Wilson – the Republicans don't do a thing for the little man (John Updike Quotes)
What you haven't done by thirty you're not likely to do. What you have done you'll do lots more (John Updike Quotes)
There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me; but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel, they jam (John Updike Quotes)
It comes to him: growth is betrayal. There is no other route. There is no arriving somewhere without leaving somewhere (John Updike Quotes)
He doesn't blame people for many sin, but he does hate uncoordination, the root of all evil, as he feels it, for without coordination there can be no order, no connecting (John Updike Quotes)
He showed the world what can be done against the odds, against a superpower. He showed - and this is where Vietnam and Iraq come in, that in a war between an imperialist occupier and the people who actually live there, the people will eventually prevail. They know the terrain. They have more at stake. They have nowhere else to go (John Updike Quotes)
My first thought, as a child, was that the artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and that he does it without destroying something else. A kind of refutation of the conservation of matter. That still seems to me its central magic, its core of joy (John Updike Quotes)
The river, tonally, does not recede, presenting the same lifeless grey near and far, a depthless plane upon which Schmitt's dragging oars inscribe parallel lines and Eakins' oars, rising and falling, leave methodically spaced patches of disturbed water. The canvas is haunting - en evocation of the democracy's idyllic, isolating spaciousness, present even in the midst of a great Eastern city (John Updike Quotes)
Intent on prayer, she has a dumb girl's sweet piercing way of putting her whole body into one thing at a time (John Updike Quotes)
Right and wrong aren't dropped from the sky. We. We make them. Against misery. Invariably, Harry, invariably - he grows confident of his ability to negotiate long words - misery follows their disobedience. Not our own, often at first not our own (John Updike Quotes)
We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one (John Updike Quotes)
America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy (John Updike Quotes)
What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit (John Updike Quotes)
Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot (John Updike Quotes)
Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life (John Updike Quotes)
I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head (John Updike Quotes)
Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them (John Updike Quotes)
Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them (John Updike Quotes)
I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone (John Updike Quotes)
The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop (John Updike Quotes)
We are most alive when we're in love (John Updike Quotes)
Vagueness and procrastination are ever a comfort to the frail in spirit (John Updike Quotes)
Writers’ lives break into two halves (John Updike Quotes)