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John Updike Quotes
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other peoples patience. - John Updike Quotes
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. - John Updike Quotes
A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens. - John Updike Quotes
America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy. - John Updike Quotes
Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them. - John Updike Quotes
An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause. - John Updike Quotes
Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better. - John Updike Quotes
Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better. - John Updike Quotes
Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better. - John Updike Quotes
Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn. - John Updike Quotes
Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism. - John Updike Quotes
But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography. - John Updike Quotes
By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved. - John Updike Quotes
Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better. - John Updike 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 Quotes
Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. - John Updike Quotes
Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. - John Updike Quotes
Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another days progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper. - John Updike Quotes
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner. - John Updike Quotes
Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience. - John Updike Quotes
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. - John Updike 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 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 Quotes
Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five. - John Updike Quotes
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. - John Updike Quotes
I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone. - John Updike Quotes
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. - John Updike Quotes
Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered. - John Updike Quotes
Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went. - John Updike Quotes
Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency. - John Updike Quotes
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