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Any activity becomes creative ...

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

John Updike 387 quotes

Art is like baby shoes. When y...

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

John Updike 387 quotes

Every marriage tends to consis...

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

John Updike 387 quotes

Existence itself does not feel...

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.

John Updike 387 quotes

For male and female alike, the...

For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do, they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities.

John Updike 387 quotes

Four years was enough of Harva...

Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.

John Updike 387 quotes

From infancy on, we are all sp...

From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.

John Updike 387 quotes

Government is either organized...

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

John Updike 387 quotes

Most of American life consists...

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

John Updike 387 quotes

Now that I am sixty, I see why...

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

John Updike 387 quotes

The inner spaces that a good s...

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.

John Updike 387 quotes

There is no pleasing New Engla...

There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes.

John Updike 387 quotes

There's a crystallization that...

There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.

John Updike 387 quotes

Until the 20th century it was ...

Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.

John Updike 387 quotes

We take our bearings, daily, f...

We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.

John Updike 387 quotes

A narrative is like a room on ...

A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens.

John Updike 387 quotes

The Founding Fathers in their ...

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.

John Updike 387 quotes

Each morning my characters gre...

Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.

John Updike 387 quotes

And there was, in those Ipswic...

And there was, in those Ipswich years, for me at least, a raw educational component; though I used to score well in academic tests, I seemed to know very little of how the world worked and was truly grateful for instruction, whether it was how to stroke a backhand, mix a martini, use a wallpaper steamer, or do the Twist. My wife, too, seemed willing to learn. Old as we must have looked to our children, we were still taking lessons, in how to be grown-up.

John Updike 387 quotes

Movies took you right up to th...

Movies took you right up to the edge but kept you safe.

John Updike 387 quotes

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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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