John Updike Quotes
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
John Updike
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So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
Calista Flockhart
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
Victor Borge
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In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.
Saint Bernard
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The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.
Ted Danson
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
Jack Youngblood
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
Gary Lineker
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Call it not vain;-they do not err,Who say, that when the Poet dies,Mute Nature mourns her worshipper,And celebrates his obsequies.
Walter Scott
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You have to have a sense of humor about life to get through it.
Kesha
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Being your own woman, not cookie cutter - that is the greatest luxury!
Maria Cornejo
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Western States keep playing with, and around, Russia.
Aslan Maskhadov
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I'm a huge fan of Canadian rock-and-roll. When I was growing up, Rush came out with a record called Hemispheres, and I must have listened to that record for two years straight. Even when I was asleep I had it on. So, yeah, whenever I hear a Rush tune, the first thing I think of is Toronto.
Kiefer Sutherland
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Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
John Updike