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But it is just two lovers, holding hands and in a hurry to reach their car, their locked hands a starfish leaping through the dark (John Updike Quotes)
What is this? He has a sensation of touching glass. He doesn't know if they are talking about nothing or making code for the deepest meanings (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)
Having children is something we think we ought to do because our parents did it, but when it is over the children are just other members of the human race, rather disappointingly (John Updike Quotes)
The fullness ends when we give nature her ransom, when we make children for her. Then she is through with us, and we become, first inside, and then outside, junk. Flower stalks (John Updike Quotes)
You have a life and there are these volumes on either side that go unvisited; some day soon as the world winds he will lie beneath what he now stands on, dead as those insects whose sound he no longer hears, and the grass will go on growing, wild and blind (John Updike Quotes)
But cities aren't like people; they live on and on, even though their reason for being where they are has gone downriver and out to sea (John Updike Quotes)
The clangor of the body shop comes up softly. It's noise comforts him, tells him he is hidden and safe, that while he hides men are busy nailing the world down, and toward the disembodied sounds his heart makes in darkness a motion of love (John Updike Quotes)
Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey (John Updike Quotes)
Women, fire in their crotch, won't burn out, begin by fighting off pricks, end by going wild hunting for one that still works (John Updike Quotes)
.... his silence he has indicated that he is willing. He hasn't the strength any more, the excess vitality, for an affair - its danger, its demand performances, the secrecy added like a filigree to your normal life, your gnawing preoccupation with it and with the constant threat of its being discovered and ended (John Updike Quotes)
I was made to feel I could do things. If you get this feeling early and can hold it until you're 15, you tend to never lose it (John Updike Quotes)
All this saving a child does! At one point I even saved the box scores of an entire baseball season, both leagues, since Philadelphia played, haplessly, in both. How precious each scrap of the world appears, in our first years' experience of it! Slowly we realize that it is all disposable, including ourselves (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)
When the first blooms came they were like the single big flower Oriental prostitutes wear on the sides of their heads…But when the hemispheres of blossom appear in crowds they remind him of nothing so much as hats worn by cheap girls to church on Easter (John Updike Quotes)
Try to understand what the author wished to do, and do not blame him for not achieving what he did not attempt (John Updike Quotes)
I would write ads for deodorants or labels for catsup bottles, if I had to. The miracle of turning inklings into thoughts and thoughts into words and words into metal and print and ink never palls for me (John Updike Quotes)
For supper Jill cooks a filet of sole, lemony, light, simmered in sunshine, skin flaky brown; Nelson gets a hamburger with wheatgerm sprinkled on it to remind him of a Nutburger. Wheatgerm, zucchini, water chestnuts, celery salt, Familia: these are some of the exotic items Jill's shopping brings into the house. Her cooking tastes to him of things he never had: candlelight, saltwater, health fads, wealth, class (John Updike Quotes)
Not only are selves conditional but they die. Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time? (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)
The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't - whichever seems likelier to win an effect (John Updike Quotes)
And there was, in those Ipswich years, for me at least, a raw educational component; though I used to score well in academic tests, I seemed to know very little of how the world worked and was truly grateful for instruction, whether it was how to stroke a backhand, mix a martini, use a wallpaper steamer, or do the Twist. My wife, too, seemed willing to learn. Old as we must have looked to our children, we were still taking lessons, in how to be grown-up (John Updike Quotes)
The universe is a pointless, self running machine, and we are insignificant by-products, whom death will tuck back into oblivion, with or without holy fanfare (John Updike Quotes)
Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness (John Updike Quotes)
Days, pale slices between nights, they blend, not exactly alike, transparencies so lightly tinted that only stacked all together do they darken to a fatal shade (John Updike Quotes)
No soul or locale is too humble to be the site of entertaining and instructive fiction. Indeed, all other things being equal, the rich and glamorous are less fertile ground than the poor and plain, and the dusty corners of the world more interesting than its glittering, already sufficiently publicized centers (John Updike Quotes)
I once did something right. I played first-rate basketball. I really did. And after you're first-rate at something, no matter what, it kind of takes the kick out of being second-rate (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)
How sad, how strange, we make companions out of air and hurt them, so they will defy us, completing creation (John Updike Quotes)