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John Updike Quotes & Sayings

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Last updated Dec 2023

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It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian.

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Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.

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Who Cares quotes

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.

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Who Cares quotes

When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.

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Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying

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The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents.

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Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.

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To say that war is madness is like saying that s.. 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

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Possession diminishes perception of value, immediately

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Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.

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Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is the enemy of well-being.

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A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

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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.

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The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.

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Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

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Many men are more faithful to their golf partners than to their wives and have stuck with them longer.

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Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

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The city overwhelmed our expectations. The Kiplingesque grandeur of Waterloo Station, the Eliotic despondency of the brick row in Chelsea the Dickensian nightmare of fog and sweating pavement and besmirched cornices.

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Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.

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Creativity quotes

From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.

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