68 Quotations by John Updike
- 41. Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens; a ...
- 42. Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.
- 43. Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.
- 44. Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that w ...
- 45. Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is the enemy of well-being.
- 46. Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.
- 47. Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.
- 48. School is where you go between when your parents can't take you, and industry can't take you.
- 49. Sex is like money; only too much is enough.
- 50. That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held ...
- 51. The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self ...
- 52. The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.
- 53. The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we a ...
- 54. The heart prefers to move against the grain of circumstance; perversity is the soul's very life.
- 55. The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.
- 56. the music was human; the static was natural.
- 57. There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the mi ...
- 58. To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungratef ...
- 59. To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a ...
- 60. Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his wor ...
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