Her sentences march under a harsh sun that bleaches color from them but bestows a peculiar, invigorating, Pascalian clarity. - John Updike Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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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. - John Updike Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step aside we are disavowing the very realm where we exist and where all things precious are kept -- the realm of emotion and conscience, of memory and intention and sensation. - John Updike Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational 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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity (in the Harvard sense) of saying that the universe just happened to happen and that when we're dead we're dead - John Updike Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner. - John Updike Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Possession diminishes perception of value, immediately. - John Updike Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Upon shaving off one's beard. The scissors cut the long-grown hair the razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, bug-eyed, I stare at the forgotten boy I was. - John Updike Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. - John Updike Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience. - John Updike Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Many men are more faithful to their golf partners than to their wives and have stuck with them longer. - John Updike Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I secretly understood the primitive appeal of the hearth. Television is-its irresistible charm-a fire. - John Updike Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency. - John Updike Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational 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. - John Updike Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life. - John Updike Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding. - John Updike Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational 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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Boys are playing basketball around a telephone pole with a backboard bolted to it. - John Updike Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Sex is like money only too much is enough. - John Updike Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it. - John Updike Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself. - John Updike Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The first breath of adultery is the freest after it, constraints aping marriage develop. - John Updike Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Art imitates Nature in this not to dare is to dwindle. - John Updike Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Customs and convictions change respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art. - John Updike Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy. - John Updike Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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