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John Updike Quotes

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Without rain, there would be no life  (John Updike Quotes) In no other sport must the spectator move  (John Updike Quotes) All blessings are mixed blessings  (John Updike Quotes) The first breathe of adultery is the freest  (John Updike Quotes) Revolution is just one crowd taking power from another  (John Updike Quotes) Women are an alien race set down among us  (John Updike Quotes) Movies took you right up to the edge but kept you safe  (John Updike Quotes) Life is a razor, you are always in hot water or a scrape  (John Updike Quotes) I think books should have secrets, like people do  (John Updike Quotes) Human was the music, natural was the static  (John Updike Quotes) Of nothing but me I sing, lacking another song  (John Updike Quotes) Affairs,..., like everything else, ask too much  (John Updike Quotes) Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart  (John Updike Quotes) He skates saucily over great tracts of confessed ignorance  (John Updike Quotes) Any decent kind of world, you wouldn’t need all these rules  (John Updike Quotes) Like water, blood must run or grow scum  (John Updike Quotes) Halfway isn’t all the way, but it’s better than no way  (John Updike Quotes) The days are short, The sun a spark Hung thin between The dark and dark  (John Updike Quotes) A person believes various things at various times, even on the same day  (John Updike Quotes) Golf’s ultimate moral instruction directs us to find within ourselves a pivotal center of enjoyment: relax into a rhythm that fits the hills and swales, and play the shot at hand - not the last one, or the next one, but the one at your feet, in the poison ivy, where you put it.  (John Updike Quotes) A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience  (John Updike Quotes) The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education  (John Updike Quotes) I secretly understood: The primitive appeal of the hearth. Television is - it's irresistible charm - a fire  (John Updike Quotes) To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given  (John Updike Quotes) What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits to arise, amid all its perfumed and hypnotic inducements to mate, a tireless tribe of spirochetes and viruses that torture and kill us for following orders?  (John Updike Quotes) For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do - they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities  (John Updike Quotes) There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes  (John Updike Quotes) To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client; still, one must make the best of the case, for the purposes of Providence  (John Updike Quotes) In general, the churches, visited by me often on weekdays... Bore for me the same relation to God that billboards did to Coca-Cola; they promoted thirst without quenching it  (John Updike Quotes) Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad; hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us  (John Updike Quotes)
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