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John Updike
Profession : Novelist
Birth : March 18, 1932
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Sex is like money; only too much is enough.
John Updike
Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.
John Updike
Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
John Updike
The cinema has done more for my spiritual life than the church. My ideas of fame, success and beauty all originate from the big screen. Whereas Christian religion is retreating everywhere and losing more and more influence; film has filled the vacuum and supports us with myths and action-controlling images.
John Updike
Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.
John Updike
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
That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.
John Updike
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.
John Updike
The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.
John Updike
Humor is my default mode.
John Updike
We are most alive when we're in love.
John Updike
America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.
John Updike
What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.
John Updike
Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.
John Updike
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
Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.
John Updike
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
John Updike
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
Eros is everywhere. It is what binds.
John Updike
Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.
John Updike
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