John Updike Quotes
Harry having drawn at golf The shape of his collapse clings to him. Who says the universe isn't soaked in disgrace?
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If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.
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What's really important to me is somebody who can totally let loose and pretty much be themselves and have fun.
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I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad.
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I learnt tennis, swimming, basketball and several others, but the sport I loved the most was golf.
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There are no maladies in my golf game. My golf game stinks.
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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
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It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
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Owing to some peculiarity in my nervous system, I have perception of some things, which no one else has; or at least very few, if any... I can throw rays from every quarter of the universe into one vast focus.
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Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.
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I prefer to do cable TV because it allows you the time to do other things. I definitely have an eye on doing more work in features and playing different characters, but I am also a big fan of going on vacation and playing golf and going to the beach.
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With Tiger Woods, you know everyone is watching. But I think interest in women's golf is getting better too.
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I loved junior golf.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.
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Medieval alchemists, despite their lust for gold, considered mercury the most potent and poetic substance in the universe. As a child, I would have agreed with them.
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The only reason I ever played golf in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish.
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It's nice to win. I'll never win again. I may have to take up golf - take on Tiger.
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I challenge myself everywhere, onstage, on the golf course. Hey, isn't that the point of it all? To keep getting better? Otherwise why do it?
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I quickly discovered that trying to go play golf while living in Manhattan was about as easy as trying to grab a taxi while standing out in front of Saks Fifth Avenue in the freezing rain on the last shopping day before Christmas.
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She may be mad, he realizes abruptly. Not clinically insane, just at odds with the entire universe. Locked into a pathological view of her own role in reality.
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I guess Surrealism has a draw for me because it's an unknown world. It's a world of subconscious. Some things you can't really get your hands on very easily. Things that are kind of nebulous and they feel like they're not completely formed. You have to feel your way through that.
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I've had something like seven films at Sundance, one of which won the Grand Jury Prize.
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In the twilight, it was a vision of power.
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Harry having drawn at golf The shape of his collapse clings to him. Who says the universe isn't soaked in disgrace?
