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John Updike Quotes

... hate suits him better than forgiveness. Immersed in hate, he doesn't have to do anything; he can be paralyzed, and the rigidty of hatred makes a kind of shelter for him Picture Quote #1

History. The more of it you have the more you have to live it. After a little while there gets to be too much of it to memorize and maybe that's when empires start to decline Picture Quote #1

The thing about her is, she's good-natured. He knew it the second he saw her standing by the parking meters. He could just tell from the soft way her belly looked. With women, you keep bumping against them, because they want different things, they're a different race. Either they give, like a plant, or scrape, like a stone. In all the green world nothing feels as good as a woman's good nature Picture Quote #1

It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you Picture Quote #1

I remember one English teacher in the eighth grade, Florence Schrack, whose husband also taught at the high school. I thought what she said made sense, and she parsed sentences on the blackboard and gave me, I'd like to think, some sense of English grammar and that there is a grammar, that those commas serve a purpose and that a sentence has a logic, that you can break it down. I've tried not to forget those lessons, and to treat the English language with respect as a kind of intricate tool Picture Quote #1

Most of American life is driving somewhere and then driving back wondering why the hell you went Picture Quote #1

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TV families and your own are hard to tell apart, except your isn't interrupted every six minutes by commercials and theirs don't get bogged down into nothingness, a state where nothing happens, no skit, no zany visitors, no outburst on the laugh track, nothing at all but boredom and a lost feeling, especially when you get up in the morning and the moon is still shining and men are making noisy bets on the first tee Picture Quote #1

The faith in an afterlife, however much our reason ridicules it, very modestly extends our faith that each moment of our consciousness will be followed by another - that a coherent matrix has been prepared for this precious self of ours. The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, of what we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified Picture Quote #1

I like old men. They can be wonderful bastards because they have nothing to lose. The only people who can be themselves are babies and old bastards Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

It comes to him: growth is betrayal. There is no other route. There is no arriving somewhere without leaving somewhere Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one Picture Quote #1

America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy Picture Quote #1

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit Picture Quote #1

Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot Picture Quote #1

Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life Picture Quote #1

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I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head Picture Quote #1

Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them Picture Quote #1

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone Picture Quote #1

We are most alive when we're in love Picture Quote #1

Vagueness and procrastination are ever a comfort to the frail in spirit Picture Quote #1

Writers’ lives break into two halves Picture Quote #1

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It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules Picture Quote #1

Do what the heart commands. The heart is our only guide Picture Quote #1

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better Picture Quote #1

God is in the tiger as well as in the lamb Picture Quote #1

Life, just as we first thought, is playing grownup Picture Quote #1

Our lives fade behind us before we die Picture Quote #1

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... hate suits him better than forgiveness. Immersed in hate, he doesn't have to do anything; he can be paralyzed, and the rigidty of hatred makes a kind of shelter for him (John Updike Quotes) History. The more of it you have the more you have to live it. After a little while there gets to be too much of it to memorize and maybe that's when empires start to decline (John Updike Quotes) The thing about her is, she's good-natured. He knew it the second he saw her standing by the parking meters. He could just tell from the soft way her belly looked. With women, you keep bumping against them, because they want different things, they're a different race. Either they give, like a plant, or scrape, like a stone. In all the green world nothing feels as good as a woman's good nature (John Updike Quotes) It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you (John Updike Quotes) I remember one English teacher in the eighth grade, Florence Schrack, whose husband also taught at the high school. I thought what she said made sense, and she parsed sentences on the blackboard and gave me, I'd like to think, some sense of English grammar and that there is a grammar, that those commas serve a purpose and that a sentence has a logic, that you can break it down. I've tried not to forget those lessons, and to treat the English language with respect as a kind of intricate tool (John Updike Quotes) Most of American life is driving somewhere and then driving back wondering why the hell you went (John Updike Quotes) TV families and your own are hard to tell apart, except your isn't interrupted every six minutes by commercials and theirs don't get bogged down into nothingness, a state where nothing happens, no skit, no zany visitors, no outburst on the laugh track, nothing at all but boredom and a lost feeling, especially when you get up in the morning and the moon is still shining and men are making noisy bets on the first tee (John Updike Quotes) The faith in an afterlife, however much our reason ridicules it, very modestly extends our faith that each moment of our consciousness will be followed by another - that a coherent matrix has been prepared for this precious self of ours. The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, of what we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified (John Updike Quotes) I like old men. They can be wonderful bastards because they have nothing to lose. The only people who can be themselves are babies and old bastards (John Updike Quotes) 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 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) It comes to him: growth is betrayal. There is no other route. There is no arriving somewhere without leaving somewhere (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) 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) I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone (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) It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules (John Updike Quotes) Do what the heart commands. The heart is our only guide (John Updike Quotes) Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better (John Updike Quotes) God is in the tiger as well as in the lamb (John Updike Quotes) Life, just as we first thought, is playing grownup (John Updike Quotes) Our lives fade behind us before we die (John Updike Quotes)

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