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John Updike Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated Apr 2024
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A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens.
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A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.
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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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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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Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad; hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us
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Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books.
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S.. is like money; only too much is enough.
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I secretly understood: the primitive appeal of the hearth. Television is-its irresistible charm-a fire.
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Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
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We are most alive when we're in love.
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I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
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Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
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It was one of history's great love stories, the mutually profitable romance which Hollywood and bohunk America conducted almost in the dark, a tapping of fervent messages through the wall of the San Gabriel Range.
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School is where you go between when your parents can't take you, and industry can't take you.
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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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Writers take words seriously-perhaps the last professional class that does-and they struggle to steer their own through the crosswinds of meddling editors and careless typesetters and obtuse and malevolent reviewers into the lap of the ideal reader.
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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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How do you write women so well? I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability.
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Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.
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In memory's telephoto lens, far objects are magnified.
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