Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old John Updike quotes, John Updike sayings, and John Updike proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
We are most alive when we're in love.John Updike
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Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.John Updike
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Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life. John Updike
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Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better.John Updike
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America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.John Updike
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It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies and is unvaccinated by suspicion.John Updike
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Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.John Updike
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The Florida sun seems not much a single thing overhead but a set of klieg lights that pursue you everywhere with an even white illumination.John Updike
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The theme of old age doesn't seem to fascinate Hollywood.John Updike
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Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.John Updike
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You can't change everything in one night, but one night can change everything.John Updike
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Sex is like money; only too much is enough.John Updike
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Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.John Updike
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The army was kept in as good state of fitness as the funds would allow.John Updike
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Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is the enemy of well-being.John Updike
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Vagueness and procrastination are ever a comfort to the frail in spirit.John Updike
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Vegas must be a great town for Laundromats. Nobody lives there, everybody is just passing through, leaving a little bit of dirt.John Updike
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But cities aren't like people; they live on and on, even though their reason for being where they are has gone downriver and out to sea.John Updike
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New York is a city with virtually no habitable public space - only private spaces expensively maintained within the general disaster.John Updike
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The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.John Updike
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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.John Updike
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The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.John Updike
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The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.John Updike
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The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.John Updike
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Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.John Updike
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Golf at its measured pace permits an electric excess of mental activity.John Updike
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But it is just two lovers, holding hands and in a hurry to reach their car, their locked hands a starfish leaping through the dark.John Updike
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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
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The difference between a childhood and a boyhood must be this: our childhood is what we alone have had; our boyhood is what any boy in our environment would have had.John Updike
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Our tears fatten upon our memories of joy.John Updike