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A person believes various thi...

A person believes various things at various times, even on the same day.

John Updike 387 quotes

In tennis, there is the foreh...

In tennis, there is the forehand, the backhand, the overhead smash and the drop volley, all with a different grip.

John Updike 387 quotes

The good ending dismisses us ...

The good ending dismisses us with a touch of ceremony and throws a backward light of significance over the story just read. It makes it, as they say, or unmakes it. A weak beginning is forgettable, but the end of a story bulks in the reader's mind like the giant foot in a foreshortened photograph.

John Updike 387 quotes

Each morning my characters gr...

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

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.

John Updike 387 quotes

My interest generally is the ...

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

John Updike 387 quotes

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.

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.

John Updike 387 quotes

There's a crystallization tha...

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

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.

John Updike 387 quotes

I was raised in the Depressio...

I was raised in the Depression, when there was a great sense of dog-eat-dog and people fighting over scraps.

John Updike 387 quotes

Some stories or passages are ...

Some stories or passages are more difficult and demand more fussing with than others, but, in general, I'm a two-draft writer rather than a six-draft writer, or whatever.

John Updike 387 quotes

But for a few phrases from hi...

But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.

John Updike 387 quotes

The writers we tend to univer...

The writers we tend to universally admire, like Beckett, or Kafka, or TS Eliot, are not very prolific.

John Updike 387 quotes

When you sit at your desk, if...

When you sit at your desk, if you're lucky, there's a moment when you feel empowered to be someone or something else, to leap into another skin.

John Updike 387 quotes

The Internet doesn't like you...

The Internet doesn't like you to learn too much about explosives.

John Updike 387 quotes

Existence itself does not fee...

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

I seem to have this need to b...

I seem to have this need to belong to some church. I get worried on Sunday mornings.

John Updike 387 quotes

I know more about what it's l...

I know more about what it's like to be elderly and infirm and kind of stupid, the way you get forgetful, but on the other hand I'm a littler, wiser, dare we say? The word 'wisdom' has kind of faded out of our vocabulary, but yeah, I'm a little wiser.

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...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

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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...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

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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....