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John Updike quotes

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

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John Updike quote: "Sex is like money; only too much is enough."
Sex is like money; only too much is enough. John Updike
John Updike quote: "The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep..."
The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep showing up as if the fun's just started. John Updike
If Rabbit knew a way to clone an adult sized vagina, Rabbit would clone it, have sex with it, then clone an arm to the side of that vagina so he could carry it with him everywhere he went like a big, fuzzy key chain. John Updike
Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself. John Updike
To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given. John Updike
A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens. John Updike
John Updike quote: "Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has..."
Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency. John Updike
Her hair had been going gray as long as he could remember; she bundled it behind in a bun held with hairpins that he frequently found on the floor when he lived boyishly close to the carpet. John Updike
John Updike quote: "There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is..."
There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes. John Updike
John Updike quote: "Laws aren't ghosts in this country, they walk around with the..."
Laws aren't ghosts in this country, they walk around with the smell of earth on them. John Updike
History. The more of it you have the more you have to live it. After a little while there gets to be too much of it to memorize and maybe that's when empires start to decline. John Updike
John Updike quote: "The fucking world is running out of gas."
The fucking world is running out of gas. John Updike
There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me; but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel, they jam. John Updike
John Updike quote: "The fiction writer is the ombudsman who argues our humble,..."
The fiction writer is the ombudsman who argues our humble, dubious case in the halls of eternal record. John Updike
John Updike quote: "First snow: it came this year late in November."
First snow: it came this year late in November. John Updike

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