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John Updike Quotes

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The first author I met socially was Joyce Cary  (John Updike Quotes) Love makes the air light  (John Updike Quotes) Old age treats freelance writers pretty gently  (John Updike Quotes) I like short stories  (John Updike Quotes) I have never liked haircuts  (John Updike Quotes) Mozart’s music gives us permission to live  (John Updike Quotes) Time is our element, not a mistaken invader  (John Updike Quotes) Our tears fatten upon our memories of joy  (John Updike Quotes) Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face  (John Updike Quotes) We are cruel enough without meaning to be  (John Updike Quotes) Sun and moon, sun and moon, time goes  (John Updike Quotes) The great thing about the dead, they make space  (John Updike Quotes) Without rain, there would be no life  (John Updike Quotes) In no other sport must the spectator move  (John Updike Quotes) All blessings are mixed blessings  (John Updike Quotes) The first breathe of adultery is the freest  (John Updike Quotes) Women are an alien race set down among us  (John Updike Quotes) I think books should have secrets, like people do  (John Updike Quotes) Human was the music, natural was the static  (John Updike Quotes) Of nothing but me I sing, lacking another song  (John Updike Quotes) Affairs,..., like everything else, ask too much  (John Updike Quotes) Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart  (John Updike Quotes) Like water, blood must run or grow scum  (John Updike Quotes) Golf’s ultimate moral instruction directs us to find within ourselves a pivotal center of enjoyment: relax into a rhythm that fits the hills and swales, and play the shot at hand - not the last one, or the next one, but the one at your feet, in the poison ivy, where you put it.  (John Updike Quotes) All men are mortal, and therefore all men are losers  (John Updike Quotes) 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 Quotes) The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and that he does it without destroying something else. A kind of refutation of the conservation of matter. That still seems to me its central magic, its core of joy  (John Updike Quotes) There was a beauty here bigger than the hurtling beauty of basketball, a beauty 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) 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 Quotes) The faith in an afterlife, however much our reason ridicules it, very modestly extends our faith that each moment of our consciousness will be followed by another - that a coherent matrix has been prepared for this precious self of ours. The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, of what we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified  (John Updike Quotes)
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