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Students present themselves... like a succession of CDs whose shimmering surface gives no clue to their contents without the equipment to play them (John Updike Quotes)
Whatever men make, " she says, "what they felt when they made it is there... Man is a means for turning things into spirit and turning spirit into things (John Updike Quotes)
That's why we love disaster, Harry sees it, puts us back in touch with guilt and sends us crawling back to God (John Updike Quotes)
... hate suits him better than forgiveness. Immersed in hate, he doesn't have to do anything; he can be paralyzed, and the rigidty of hatred makes a kind of shelter for him (John Updike Quotes)
... but with his mother there's no question of liking him they're not even in a way separate people he began in her stomach and if she gave him life she can take it away and if he feels that withdrawal it will be the grave itself (John Updike Quotes)
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 Quotes)
I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another's brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves (John Updike Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Let us not mock God with metaphor, analogy, sidestepping, transcendence; making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the faded credulity of earlier ages:let us walk through the door (John Updike Quotes)
Hope bases vast premises upon foolish accidents and reads a word where, in fact, only a scribble exists (John Updike Quotes)
The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else (John Updike Quotes)
... I glance around at the nest we have made, at the floorboards polished by our bare feet, at the continents of stain on the ceiling like an old and all-wrong discoverer's map, at the earnestly bloated canvases I conscientiously cover with great streaks straining to say what even I am beginning to suspect is the unsayable thing, and I grow frightened (John Updike Quotes)
We are fated to love one another; we hardly exist outside our love, we are just animals without it, with a birth and a death and constant fear between. Our love has lifted us up, out of the dreadfulness of merely living (John Updike Quotes)
The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep showing up as if the fun's just started (John Updike Quotes)
People go around mourning the death of God; it's the death of sin that bothers me. Without sin, people aren't people any more, they're just souless sheep (John Updike Quotes)
There always comes in September a parched brightness to the air that hits rabbit two ways, smelling of apples and blackboard dust and marking the return to school and work in earnest, but then again reminding him he's suffered another promotion, taken another step up the stairs that has darkness at the head (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 thing about her is, she's good-natured. He knew it the second he saw her standing by the parking meters. He could just tell from the soft way her belly looked. With women, you keep bumping against them, because they want different things, they're a different race. Either they give, like a plant, or scrape, like a stone. In all the green world nothing feels as good as a woman's good nature (John Updike Quotes)
Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop; the gut expanded to take in more and more (John Updike Quotes)
You are still you. The U. S. is still the U. S., held together by credit cards and Indian names (John Updike Quotes)
What is the past, after all, but a vast sheet of darkness in which a few moments, pricked apparently at random, shine? (John Updike Quotes)
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 Quotes)
He tries to picture how it will end, with an empty baseball field, a dark factory, and then over a brook in a dirt road, he doesn't know. He pictures a huge vacant field of cinders and his heart goes hollow (John Updike Quotes)
It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you (John Updike Quotes)
In 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 Quotes)
How sad, how strange. We make comparnions out of air and hurt them, so they will defy us, completing creation (John Updike Quotes)
So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls (John Updike Quotes)
We were all brought up to want things and maybe the world isn't big enough for all that wanting. I don't know. I don't know anything (John Updike Quotes)
That's the trouble with caring about anybody, you begin to feel overprotective. Then you begin to feel crowded (John Updike Quotes)
We are each of us like our little blue planet, hung in black space, upheld by nothing but our mutual reassurances, our loving lies (John Updike Quotes)