John Updike Quotes

Harry, to Nelson 'Don't forget, there's a Depression coming.'

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• Theo van Doesburg wanted to teach in the Bauhaus in 1922. I refused, however, to appoint him since I considered him to be too aggressive and too rigidly theoretical: he would have wrought havoc in the Bauhaus through his fanatic attitude, which ran counter to my own broader approach.

  

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• This story's gonna grab people. It's about this guy, he's crazy about this girl, but he likes to wear dresses. Should he tell her? Should he not tell her? He's torn, Georgie. This is drama.

  

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• The dialysis is to wash my blood, to keep my kidneys functioning.

  

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• I got in trouble for saying I would move my family to Europe, but I said it.

  

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• Self-knowledge can be painful, but not half so damaging as self-ignorance.

  

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• So high above all things that be. Is God uplifted, man can dare. No utterance: he prayeth best. When Silence is his sum of prayer

  

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• Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.

  

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• Time has always been used against us on a certain level. The invention of the clock made us accountable to the employer, gave us a standard measure and stopwatch management, and it also led to the requirement of interest-bearing currency to grow over time, the requirement of the expansion of our economy.

  

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• All my inspiration comes from life. That's how it never stops, in a way.

  

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• Learning lessons is a little like reaching maturity. You're not suddenly more happy, wealthy, or powerful, but you understand the world around you better, and you're at peace with yourself. Learning life's lessons is not about making your life perfect, but about seeing life as it was meant to be.

  

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• I don't necessarily want to hear about my talent or my greatness as an actor.

  

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• During my adolescence, our family dwelt in rural Alaska. We were dirt poor, Depression-era poor. Tarpaper shack and kerosene lamps. In those days I read because that's all I had. I wrote because that's all I had.

  

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• Music is a science, it heals depression, it awakens, most people don't know, they just take music for an entertainment, something to dance to, and enjoy yourself and you go to bed and forget it tomorrow, music must never be forgotten, it's like a fountain that keeps on flowing.

  

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• When I got back to my cell, I said, 'God, I asked you to set me free, not kill me.' God spoke to me and said, 'Andrew, I have set you free from the inside out, I have given you life!' From that moment on I haven't stopped worshipping Him. I had never sung before, never led worship, until Jesus set me free.

  

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• As a musician, you never understand why people connect with certain songs.

  

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• Harry, to Nelson 'Don't forget, there's a Depression coming.'

  

  John Updike
  • Depression