John Updike Quotes
...a sense of defeat the years have brought back to him, after what seemed for a while to be triumphs.
John Updike
Quotes to Explore
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I don't have a daily routine, beyond brushing my teeth. It changes every day.
Paloma Faith
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Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear.
Nat King Cole
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Travel is impossible, but daydreaming about travel is easy.
B. J. Novak
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I'm a big believer in keeping the stage directions really tight.
Edgar Wright
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Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that conversation. Race is not a genre.
Mara Brock Akil
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Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap - let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.
Abraham Lincoln
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I've got a particular way of writing novels, and that carries over into the way I write comics and games, too. I'm a news journalist by background, so I approach everything as reporting - I treat it as real, I ask the questions I'd ask in a real situation, and I let the characters speak for themselves.
Karen Traviss
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To a poet nothing can be useless.
Samuel Johnson
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We were snatched away and given alone into the hands of people who believed that it was their duty to break us and remake us in the Christian American image. And, of course, breaking people is much easier than putting them together again.So much agony caused, so much evil done in God’s name.
Octavia E. Butler
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Without Art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without Science, we should always worship false gods.
W. H. Auden
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When I hear music as a fan, I see fields. I see landscapes. I close my eyes and see an entire universe that that music and the voice, or the narrative, create. A music video-and any other kind of visual reference-is created by someone else.
Michael Stipe
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