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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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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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 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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The key to any good sports story is identifying the defining moment. In football games or a boxing match, it's usually pretty obvious. But in golf, sometimes it happens on Thursday. Usually it's Sunday, but guys who don't know the game, they can miss it.
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It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to the curved ends of the universe, as light is said to do.
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Golf is a better game played downhill.
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He gave man speech, and speech created thought, Which is the measure of the universe.
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Love is the face and body of the Universe.
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The trick is, after all, obvious. The Theist takes terms that can apply to sentient life alone, and applies them to the universe at large. He talks about means, that is, the deliberate planning to achieve certain ends, and then says that as there are means there must be ends. Having, unperceived, placed the rabbit in the hat, he is able to bring it forth to the admiration of his audience.
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I stare to memorize your face, to kiss you in my mind, love you all the time.
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Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.
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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?
