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John Updike's Quotes 24

Wisdom

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

Truth

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

Sports

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

Society

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

Respect

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

Religion

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

Religion

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

Poetry

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

Patience

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

Morning

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

Marriage

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

Marriage

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

Marriage

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

Love

We are most alive when we're in love.

Leadership

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

Home

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

Government

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

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