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A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience (John Updike Quotes)
A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world (John Updike Quotes)
Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art (John Updike Quotes)
Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper (John Updike Quotes)
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner (John Updike Quotes)
Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience (John Updike Quotes)
Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five (John Updike Quotes)
Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went (John Updike Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it (John Updike Quotes)
The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education (John Updike Quotes)
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea (John Updike Quotes)
I would especially like to recourt the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled postcard from time to time (John Updike Quotes)
Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows only that he has passed into it and lives beyond us, in a condition not ours (John Updike Quotes)
Her sentences march under a harsh sun that bleaches color from them but bestows a peculiar, invigorating, pascalian clarity (John Updike Quotes)
He had a sensation of anxiety and shame, a sensitivity acute beyond usefulness, as if the nervous system, flayed of its old hide of social usage, must record every touch of pain (John Updike Quotes)
I secretly understood: The primitive appeal of the hearth. Television is - it's irresistible charm - a fire (John Updike Quotes)
We hope the real person behind the words will be revealed as ignominiously as a shapeless snail without its shapely shell (John Updike Quotes)
It rots a writer's brain, it cretinises you. You say the same thing again and again, and when you do that happily you're well on the way to being a cretin. Or a politician (John Updike Quotes)
Yes, there is a ton of information on the web, but much of it is egregiously inaccurate, unedited, unattributed and juvenile (John Updike Quotes)
I must go to nature disarmed of perspective and stretch myself like a large transparent canvas upon her in the hope that, my submission being perfect, the imprint of a beautiful and useful truth would be taken (John Updike Quotes)
It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks latenesses, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patchings to repair great rents in the quotidian (John Updike Quotes)
As if pity is, as he has been taught, not a helpless outcry but a powerful tide that could redeem the world (John Updike Quotes)
He had gone to church and brought back this little flame and had nowhere to put it on the dark damp walls of the apartment, so it had flickered and gone out. and he realised that he wouldn't always be able to produce this flame (John Updike Quotes)
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 Quotes)
There was a beauty here, refined from country pastures, a game of solitariness, of waiting, waiting for the pitcher to complete his gaze toward first base and throw his lightning, a game whose very taste, of spit and dust and grass and sweat and leather and sun, was America (John Updike Quotes)
Thirty-six years old and he knows less than when he started. With the difference that now he knows how little he'll always know (John Updike Quotes)
Facts are generally overesteemed. For most practical purposes, a thing is what men think it is. When they judged the Earth flat, it was flat. As long as men thought slavery tolerable, tolerable it was. We live down here among shadows, shadows among shadows (John Updike Quotes)
Writers take words seriously - perhaps the last professional class that does - and they struggle to steer their own through the crosswinds of meddling editors and careless typesetters and obtuse and malevolent reviewers into the lap of the ideal reader (John Updike Quotes)
The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents (John Updike Quotes)