Quotes by John Updike

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and...

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Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would...

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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed...

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Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the...

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Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

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If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men,...

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Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players...

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From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the...

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Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had...

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For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what...

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Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have...

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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and...

#John Updike