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Golf appeals to the idiot in ...

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

John Updike 387 quotes

To be President of the United...

To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client.

John Updike 387 quotes

When I was born, my parents a...

When I was born, my parents and my mother's parents planted a dogwood tree in the side yard of the large white house in which we lived throughout my boyhood. This tree I learned quite early, was exactly my age - was, in a sense, me.

John Updike 387 quotes

The essential self is innocen...

The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.

John Updike 387 quotes

Dreams come true; without tha...

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

John Updike 387 quotes

Professionalism in art has th...

Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed.

John Updike 387 quotes

Writing criticism is to writi...

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

John Updike 387 quotes

The dwelling places of Europe...

The dwelling places of Europe have an air of inheritance, or cumulative possession - a hive occupied by generations of bees.

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The essential support and enc...

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 387 quotes

It is in middles that extreme...

It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules.

John Updike 387 quotes

The first breath of adultery ...

The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.

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An affair wants to spill, to ...

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

John Updike 387 quotes

Bookstores are lonely forts, ...

Bookstores are lonely forts, spilling light onto the sidewalk. They civilize their neighborhoods.

John Updike 387 quotes

Some golfers, we are told, en...

Some golfers, we are told, enjoy the landscape; but properly, the landscape shrivels and compresses into the grim, surrealistically vivid patch of grass directly under the golfer's eyes as he morosely walks toward where he thinks his ball might be.

John Updike 387 quotes

There is a great deal of busy...

There is a great deal of busywork to a writer's life, as to a professor's life, a great deal of work that matters only in that, if you don't do it, your desk becomes very full of papers. So, there is a lot of letter answering and a certain amount of speaking, though I try to keep that at a minimum.

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John Barth, I think, was real...

John Barth, I think, was really a writer of my own age and somewhat of my own temperament, although his books are very different from mine, and he has been a spokesman for the very ambitious, long, rather academic novel. But I don't think that what he is saying, so far as I understand it, is so very different from what I'm saying.

John Updike 387 quotes

Government is either organize...

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

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My interest generally is the ...

My interest generally is the hidden Americans; the ones who live far away from the headlines.

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If men do not keep on speakin...

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

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When I write, I aim in my min...

When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.

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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....