Quotes about John Updike

Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the...

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

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But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of...

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Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.

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Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer...

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Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.

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Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them.

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America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.

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A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have...

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A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself...

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A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own...

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There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their...

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