68 Quotations by John Updike
- 1. A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's p ...

- 2. A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the peop ...

- 3. A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within th ...

- 4. America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.

- 5. Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it cost them.

- 6. Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual pos ...

- 7. An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek a ...

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

- 9. Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

- 10. Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts ...

- 11. Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.

- 12. Boys are playing basketball around a telephone pole with a backboard bolted to it.

- 13. But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged th ...

- 14. By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

- 15. Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being "somebody," to be watc ...

- 16. Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart.

- 17. Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, an ...

- 18. Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

- 19. Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

- 20. Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

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