John Updike Quotes
Thirty-six years old and he knows less than when he started. With the difference that now he knows how little he'll always know.
John Updike
Quotes to Explore
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When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths or to reject absurdities and palpable contradictions.
Baron d'Holbach
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I'd been sending out demos and CDs for years. I knew my stuff was good enough, but I was getting nowhere. Then, three people - my future manager and two publishers - happened to send one of my tracks to EMI publishing in the same week. All of a sudden, they were interested!
Calvin Harris
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I spend all my time trying to avoid the spotlight.
Carl Forti
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Once I am in the square circle, I am in my home.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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The American Communists had thrived as champions of domestic reform.
Earl Browder
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Hence, ye profane! I hate ye all,Both the great vulgar and the small.
Abraham Cowley
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Martina and I went through a very bad five years. Everything's very good between us now, but it was a long haul.
Billie Jean King
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The lips on my upper right bicep are my girlfriend's lips. She has the most amazing lips, and I wanted to carry them around with me everywhere I go, considering I can't carry her lips physically with me. So I decided to place them in a discreet location, such as the inside part of my bicep.
Jake Owen
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Here's my definition of a great beach read - a fabulous story that sucks me in like a black hole and when it's over, it jettisons my bones across the galaxy with a hair on fire mission to convince everyone I know that they must read that book or they will die.
Dorothea Benton Frank
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The craftless anarchy of the Beat poets on the one hand, and the extreme control of Henry James on the other, suggest that for most human beings, just as both freedom and discipline are necessary in life, serendipity and design must coexist in a work to make it readable.
Mark Helprin
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I can't imagine anyone who doesn't think the world is safer without a tyrant who murdered his own people, used weapons of mass destruction against them and flouted the world for so many years.
Karen Hughes
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Thirty-six years old and he knows less than when he started. With the difference that now he knows how little he'll always know.
John Updike