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John Updike Quotes

John Updike

American writer

Nationality: American
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Type: Writer
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Birth: 1932-2009
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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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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.
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America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.
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For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do - they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities.
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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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If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.
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Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
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Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows only that he has passed into it and lives beyond us, in a condition not ours.
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Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
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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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Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.
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Facts are generally overesteemed. For most practical purposes, a thing is what men think it is. When they judged the earth flat, it was flat. As long as men thought slavery tolerable, tolerable it was. We live down here among shadows, shadows among shadow
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Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being ''somebody,'' to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over-animation. One can either see or be seen.
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Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from more and more, and float upward in our heedlessness, singing Gratia Dei sum quod sum.
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Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
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I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
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To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client; still, one must make the best of the case, for the purposes of Providence.
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Sex is like money; only too much is enough.
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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
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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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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.
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That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.
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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.
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Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is the enemy of well-being.
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The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.
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Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.
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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
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I think ''taste'' is a social concept and not an artistic one. I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a Writerto be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another's brain in s
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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.
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