John Updike's Quotes

John Updike's Quotes 24

Now that I am sixty I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from...

Truth should not be forced it should simply manifest itself like a woman who...

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf...

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The essential support and encouragement comes from within arising out of the...

Americans have been conditioned to respect newness whatever it costs them.

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of...

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Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to...

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own...

Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing though chilled...

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The first breath of adultery is the freest after it constraints aping...

That a marriage ends is less than ideal but all things end under heaven and...

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

We are most alive when we're in love.

A leader is one who out of madness or goodness volunteers to take upon...

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home...

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar...

Existence itself does not feel horrible it feels like an ecstasy rather...

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural...

Dreams come true without that possibility nature would not incite us to have...

Customs and convictions change respectable people are the last to know or to...

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

Writers may be disreputable incorrigible early to decay or late to bloom...