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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It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.
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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 think the Miss Universe title not only gives me the opportunity to become a role model for Latina girls around the world, but to show that beauty isn't just about the outside.
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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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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
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Reach me a gentian, give me a torch! Let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of a flower down the darker and darker stairs, where blue is darkened on blueness even where Persephone goes, just now, from the frosted September to the sightless realm where darkness is awake upon the dark.
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One bulls-eye and you're rich and famous. The rich get more famous and the famous get rich. You're the talk of the town....The sense of so much depending on success is very hard to ignore, perhaps impossible. It leads to disproportionate anxiety and disproportionate relief or disappointment.
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Ninety percent of films are pretty mediocre, but they have a built-in audience and open on 3,000 screens.
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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?
