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John Updike Quotes

John Updike quotes

American Novelist, Writer March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009

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John Updike quote: "All love is betrayal, in that it flatters life. The loveless..."
All love is betrayal, in that it flatters life. The loveless man is best armed. John Updike
In that latitude the temperature flirted with a hundred degrees for a few of the dog days, but to a child it can hardly ever be too hot. I liked the sun licking the backs of my legs, and the sweat between my shoulder blades, and the violet evenings, with ice cream and fireflies, wherein the long day slowly cooled. I liked the ants piling up dirt like coffee grounds between the bricks of our front walk, and the milkweed spittle in the vacant lot next door. I liked the freedom of shorts,... John Updike
The clangor of the body shop comes up softly. It's noise comforts him, tells him he is hidden and safe, that while he hides men are busy nailing the world down, and toward the disembodied sounds his heart makes in darkness a motion of love. John Updike
We are fated to love one another; we hardly exist outside our love, we are just animals without it, with a birth and a death and constant fear between. Our love has lifted us up , out of the dreadfulness of merely living. John Updike
John Updike quote: "I love my government not least for the extent to which it..."
I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone. John Updike
John Updike quote: "It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love..."
It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you. John Updike
John Updike quote: "That's why we love disaster, Harry sees it, puts us back in..."
That's why we love disaster, Harry sees it, puts us back in touch with guilt and sends us crawling back to God John Updike
We are each of us like our little blue planet, hung in black space, upheld by nothing but our mutual reassurances, our loving lies. John Updike
John Updike quote: "It frightens him to think of her this way. It makes her seem,..."
It frightens him to think of her this way. It makes her seem, in terms of love, so vast. John Updike
John Updike quote: "So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting..."
So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls. John Updike
John Updike quote: "We are most alive when we're in love."
We are most alive when we're in love. John Updike
I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another's brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves. John Updike
...but with his mother there's no question of liking him they're not even in a way separate people he began in her stomach and if she gave him life she can take it away and if he feels that withdrawal it will be the grave itself. John Updike
John Updike quote: "Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth;..."
Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life. John Updike
John Updike quote: "Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then..."
Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went. John Updike

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