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John Updike Quotes
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What you lose as you age is witnesses, the ones that watched from early on and cared, like your own little grandstand (John Updike Quotes)
There are some women that don’t do it for some men. That’s why they turn out so many models (John Updike Quotes)
Russia is the only country of the world you can be homesick for while you’re still in it (John Updike Quotes)
So, you know, I think any life has in it enough material, enough points of departure, to fuel a writer’s career and that we shouldn’t worry about what we’re not but to try to focus on what we are and what we do know (John Updike Quotes)
Musicians are very mysterious and wonderful people to me; I don’t know how they do it (John Updike Quotes)
My mother didn’t raise me to be a critic, but I seem to have become one anyway (John Updike Quotes)
Laws aren’t ghosts in this country, they walk around with the smell of earth on them (John Updike Quotes)
To be a human being is to be in a state of tension between your appetites and your dreams, and the social realities around you and your obligations to your fellow man (John Updike Quotes)
It is not enough for a story to flow. It has to kind of trickle and glint as it crosses over the stones of the bare facts (John Updike Quotes)
How circumstantial reality is! Facts are like individual letters, with their spikes and loops and thorns, that make up words: eventually they hurt our eyes, and we long to take a bath, to rake the lawn, to look at the sea (John Updike Quotes)
The throat: how strange, that there is not more erotic emphasis upon it. For here, through this compound pulsing pillar, our life makes its leap into spirit, and in the other direction gulps down what it needs of the material world (John Updike Quotes)
Don’t you see, if when we die there’s nothing, all your sun and fields and what not are all, ah, horror? It’s just an ocean of horror (John Updike Quotes)
I never made a decision in my life that wasn’t one hundred per cent selfish (John Updike Quotes)
Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end (John Updike Quotes)
How can you respect the world when you see it’s being run by a bunch of kids turned old? (John Updike Quotes)
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that’s the stuff life is made of. Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings (John Updike Quotes)
Figure out where you’re going before you go there: he was told that a long time ago (John Updike Quotes)
You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it (John Updike Quotes)
School is where you go between when your parents can’t take you and industry can’t take you (John Updike Quotes)
You always find things you didn’t know you were going to say, and that is the adventure (John Updike Quotes)
Many men are more faithful to their golf partners than to their wives and have stuck with them longer (John Updike Quotes)
There was clearly great charm and worth in a sport so quaintly perverse in its basic instructions. Hit down to make the ball rise. Swing easy to make it go far. Finish high to make it go straight (John Updike Quotes)
You cannot but learn more of the world’s heft, as you take it now into your hands (John Updike Quotes)
We’re past the age of heroes and hero kings... Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it’s up to the writer to find ways to make them interesting (John Updike Quotes)
There is no such thing as static happiness. Happiness is a mixed thing, a thing compounded of sacrifices, and losses, and betrayals (John Updike Quotes)
In all the green world nothing feels as good as a woman’s good nature (John Updike Quotes)
Let us not seek to make it less monstrous, for our own convenience, our own sense of beauty, lest, awakened in one unthinkable hour, we are embarrassed by the miracle, and crushed by remonstrance (John Updike Quotes)
In a country this large and a language even larger... there ought to be a living for somebody who cares and wants to entertain and instruct a reader (John Updike Quotes)
Hoping to fashion a mirror, the lover doth polish the face of his beloved until he produces a skull (John Updike Quotes)
Writing doesn’t require drive. It’s like saying a chicken has to have drive to lay an egg (John Updike Quotes)