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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: "Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can..."
Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn. John Updike
John Updike quote: "If she’d been born at the right time they would have burned..."
If she’d been born at the right time they would have burned her over in Salem. John Updike
John Updike quote: "Hope bases vast premises upon foolish accidents and reads a..."
Hope bases vast premises upon foolish accidents and reads a word where, in fact, only a scribble exists. John Updike
His insides are beginning to feel sickly. The pain of the world is a crater all these syrups and pills a thousandfold would fail to fill. John Updike
John Updike quote: "Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or..."
Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone. John Updike
John Updike quote: "Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging..."
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. John Updike
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
That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds. John Updike
John Updike quote: "By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved."
By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved. John Updike
John Updike quote: "It comes to him: growth is betrayal. There is no other route...."
It comes to him: growth is betrayal. There is no other route. There is no arriving somewhere without leaving somewhere. John Updike
I once did something right. I played first-rate basketball. I really did. And after you're first-rate at something, no matter what, it kind of takes the kick out of being second-rate. John Updike
John Updike quote: "If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your..."
If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price. John Updike
John Updike quote: "What is the past, after all, but a vast sheet of darkness in..."
What is the past, after all, but a vast sheet of darkness in which a few moments, pricked apparently at random, shine? John Updike
The cloud of the consomm’s warmth enveloped her face and revived her poise. In the liquid a slice of lemon lay at fetal peace. John Updike
I like old men. They can be wonderful bastards because they have nothing to lose. The only people who can be themselves are babies and old bastards. John Updike

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