68 Quotations by John Updike
- 21. Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be ...
- 22. Facts are generally overesteemed. For most practical purposes, a thing is what men think it is. When ...
- 23. For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do -- the ...
- 24. Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating noti ...
- 25. Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by t ...
- 26. Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no s ...
- 27. He had a sensation of anxiety and shame, a sensitivity acute beyond usefulness, as if the nervous sy ...
- 28. Her sentences march under a harsh sun that bleaches color from them but bestows a peculiar, invigora ...
- 29. I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
- 30. I moved to New England partly because it has a real literary past. The ghosts of Hawthorne and Melvi ...
- 31. I think "taste" is a social concept and not an artistic one. I'm willing to show good taste, if I ca ...
- 32. I would especially like to recourt the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, ...
- 33. I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the ...
- 34. If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines ...
- 35. In asking forgiveness of women for our mythologizing of their bodies, for being unreal about them, w ...
- 36. Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.
- 37. It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinate ...
- 38. It rots a writer's brain, it cretinises you. You say the same thing again and again, and when you do ...
- 39. It was one of history's great love stories, the mutually profitable romance which Hollywood and bohu ...
- 40. Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having rea ...
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