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John Updike Quotes

John Updike quotes

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

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Days, pale slices between nights, they blend, not exactly alike, transparencies so lightly tinted that only stacked all together do they darken to a fatal shade. John Updike
[I]n my own case at least I feel my professional need for freedom of speech and expression prejudices me toward a government whose constitution guarantees it. John Updike
John Updike quote: "The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it,..."
The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop. John Updike
But it is just two lovers, holding hands and in a hurry to reach their car, their locked hands a starfish leaping through the dark. John Updike
Museums and bookstores should feel, I think, like vacant lots - places where the demands on us are our own demands, where the spirit can find exercise in unsupervised play. John Updike
John Updike quote: "as souls must cry when they awaken in tiny babies and find..."
as souls must cry when they awaken in tiny babies and find themselves far from heaven John Updike
Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us. John Updike
John Updike quote: "I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in..."
I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head. John Updike
John Updike quote: "What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the..."
What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit. John Updike
John Updike quote: "Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever..."
Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them. John Updike
To be human is to be in the tense condition of a death-foreseeing, consciously libidinous animal. No other earthly creature suffers such a capacity for thought, such a complexity of envisioned but frustrated possibilities, such a troubling ability to question the tribal and biological imperatives. John Updike
John Updike quote: "Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous,..."
Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness. John Updike
John Updike quote: "The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living..."
The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding. John Updike
He doesn't blame people for many sin, but he does hate uncoordination, the root of all evil, as he feels it, for without coordination there can be no order, no connecting. John Updike
John Updike quote: "We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a..."
We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable. John Updike

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