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A few places are especially c...

A few places are especially conducive to inspiration - automobiles, church - public places. I plotted Couples almost entirely in church - little shivers and urgencies I would note down on the program, and carry down to the office Monday.

John Updike 387 quotes

So much love, too much love, ...

So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.

John Updike 387 quotes

It skims in through the eye, ...

It skims in through the eye, and by means of the utterly delicate retina hurls shadows like insect legs inward for translation. Then an immense space opens up in silence and an endlessly fecund sub-universe the writer descends, and asks the reader to descend after him, not merely to gain instructions but also to experience delight, the delight of mind freed from matter and exultant in the strength it has stolen from matter.

John Updike 387 quotes

Is not the decisive differenc...

Is not the decisive difference between comedy and tragedy that tragedy denies us another chance?

John Updike 387 quotes

Life is a nacho. It can be yu...

Life is a nacho. It can be yummy-crunchy or squishy-yucky. It just depends on how long it takes for you to start eating it.

John Updike 387 quotes

An American in London...canno...

An American in London...cannot but be impressed and charmed by the city. The momumentality of Washington, the thriving business of New York, the antique intimacy of Boston, plus a certain spacious and open feeling reminiscent of Denver and San Francisco-all these he finds combined for his pleasure.

John Updike 387 quotes

Life is a video game. No matt...

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end.

John Updike 387 quotes

Art imitates Nature in this; ...

Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

John Updike 387 quotes

I would especially like to re...

I would especially like to re-court the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled postcard from time to time.

John Updike 387 quotes

Of plants tomatoes seemed the...

Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot.

John Updike 387 quotes

An old essay by John Updike b...

An old essay by John Updike begins, 'We live in an era of gratuitous inventions and negative improvements.' That language is general and abstract, near the top of the ladder. It provokes our thinking, but what concrete evidence leads Updike to his conclusion ? The answer is in his second sentence : 'Consider the beer can.' To be even more specific, Updike was complaining that the invention of the pop-top ruined the aesthetic experience of drinking beer. 'Pop-top' and 'beer' are at the bottom of the ladder, 'aesthetic experience' at the top.

John Updike 387 quotes

How can the planet keep turni...

How can the planet keep turning and turning and not get so bored it explodes?

John Updike 387 quotes

You can never get the smell o...

You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.

John Updike 387 quotes

You imagine a reader and try ...

You imagine a reader and try to keep the reader interested. That's storytelling. You also hope to reward the reader with a sense of a completed design, that somebody is in charge, and that while life is pointless, the book isn't pointless. The author knows where he is going. That's form.

John Updike 387 quotes

Life is like an overlong dram...

Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews.

John Updike 387 quotes

In general, the churches, vis...

In general, the churches, visited by me often on weekdays... bore for me the same relation to God that billboards did to Coca-Cola; they promoted thirst without quenching it.

John Updike 387 quotes

The educational aspect of art...

The educational aspect of art shows has become overbearing: some of exhibits can leave you bleary from trying to read the walls. Presumably a piece of art is timeless and it can say something to us. You are taking away the right of art to talk for itself.

John Updike 387 quotes

I'm somewhat shy about the br...

I'm somewhat shy about the brutal facts of being a carnivore. I don't like meat to look like animals. I prefer it in the form of sausages, hamburger and meat loaf, far removed from the living thing.

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Russia is the only country of...

Russia is the only country of the world you can be homesick for while you're still in it.

John Updike 387 quotes

Basically it's true that my o...

Basically it's true that my own life has been my chief window for life in America, beginning with my childhood and the conflicts, the struggles, the strains that I felt in my own family.

John Updike 387 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....