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It's not up to us what we lea...

It's not up to us what we learn, but merely whether we learn through joy or through pain.

John Updike 387 quotes

Money is like water in a leak...

Money is like water in a leaky bucket: no sooner there, it begins to drip.

John Updike 387 quotes

New York is of course many ci...

New York is of course many cities, and an exile does not return to the one he left.

John Updike 387 quotes

Writing fiction is like music...

Writing fiction is like music. You have to keep it moving. You can have slow movements but there has to be a sense of momentum, of going someplace. You hear a snatch of Beethoven and it has a sense of momentum that is unmistakably his. That's a nice quality if you can do it in fiction.

John Updike 387 quotes

All men are mortal, and there...

All men are mortal, and therefore all men are losers; our profoundest loyalty goes out to the failed.

John Updike 387 quotes

Children are not a zoo of ent...

Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us.

John Updike 387 quotes

The artist brings something i...

The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else.

John Updike 387 quotes

Each day, we wake slightly al...

Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?

John Updike 387 quotes

As souls must cry when they a...

As souls must cry when they awaken in tiny babies and find themselves far from heaven

John Updike 387 quotes

People go around mourning the...

People go around mourning the death of God; it's the death of sssin that bothers me. Without ssin, people aren't people any more, they're just ssoul-less sheep.

John Updike 387 quotes

If you're telling me I'm not ...

If you're telling me I'm not mature, that's one thing I don't cry over since as far as I can make out it's the same thing as being dead.

John Updike 387 quotes

You do things and do things a...

You do things and do things and nobody really has a clue.

John Updike 387 quotes

But it is just two lovers, ho...

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 387 quotes

I would rather have as my pat...

I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price of a book or a magazine than a small body of enlightened and responsible men administering public funds. I would rather chance my personal vision of truth striking home here and there in the chaos of publication that exists than attempt to filter it through a few sets of official, honorably public-spirited scruples.

John Updike 387 quotes

What would men be without wom...

What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce. Mark Twain Women are an alien race set down among us.

John Updike 387 quotes

Those running tights the youn...

Those running tights the young women wear now, so they look like spacewomen, raspberry red and electric green so tight they show every muscle right into the crack between the buttocks, what is the point of them? Display. Young animals need to display.

John Updike 387 quotes

Fiction is nothing less than ...

Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet.

John Updike 387 quotes

A writer's self-consciousness...

A writer's self-consciousness, for which he is much scorned, is really a mode of interestedness, that inevitably turns outward.

John Updike 387 quotes

...hate suits him better than...

...hate suits him better than forgiveness. Immersed in hate, he doesn't have to do anything; he can be paralyzed, and the rigidty of hatred makes a kind of shelter for him.

John Updike 387 quotes

The essence of government is ...

The essence of government is concern for the widest possible public interest; the essence of the humanities, it seems to me, is private study, thought, and passion. Publicity is a essential to the one as privacy is to the other.

John Updike 387 quotes

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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....