John Updike Quotes
I must go to Nature disarmed of perspective and stretch myself like a large transparent canvas upon her in the hope that, my submission being perfect, the imprint of a beautiful and useful truth would be taken.
Quotes to Explore
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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
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If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in the South and in Las Vegas, where we couldn't stay in the hotels where we entertained. But that began to change.
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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Everyone has a crazy old lady in their family like 'Mama.' No one ever comes up to me and says 'Mama' is just like them, so no one is ever offended by her. Even young people like to laugh at her. I think she helps kids appreciate their own grandmothers more.
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One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.
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I wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less.
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If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
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There's something about wearing clothes that your great-grandmother might have thought were nice that makes you look older.
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Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.
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It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.
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Man, y'know, I'm a music guy. I like a lot of different things. It depends on the time of the day and the situation.
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The quality of TV, I think, is at an all-time high. The problem with it is the way that we end up consuming it - generally a cable box. A satellite receiver is, to me, nothing more than a glorified VCR.
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I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine.
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I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.
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Pressure selling is firmly rooted in American economic life, and I'm sorry it is, for it should not be necessary. Some people think part of the panic following 1929 was due to too much pressure in selling.
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Let a man sow a field or plant a farm never so well, yet he cannot foretell who will gather in the fruits; another may build him a house of fairest proportion, yet he knows not who will inhabit it.
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Carlos is better. His range of motion improved. He pushed it hard yesterday, but we'll just have to see.
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I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.
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'A Christmas Carol' has been described as the most perfect of Dickens's works and as a quintessential heart-warming story, and it is certainly the most popular.
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My father is an architect, so I often think like a designer or an architect. I remember when I was admiring buildings, I would look up at them and see this perspective and this awesome power of the monument in front of me.
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I must go to Nature disarmed of perspective and stretch myself like a large transparent canvas upon her in the hope that, my submission being perfect, the imprint of a beautiful and useful truth would be taken.
