John Updike Quotes
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Often, a serial killer has no felony record.
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I am healthy and happy.
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Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.
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In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
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In England especially, I've found that if you bring up King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson at a dinner party or a social gathering, it's like throwing a Molotov cocktail into the room.
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I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.
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I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
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All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
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The biggest part of Loopt is about discovering the world around you, never replacing a social experience - only adding to it.
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If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.
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My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.
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I never lie to my fans.
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I think for a lot of amateurs, their alignment is always out.
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I developed a deep sadness for celebrities, a pity that they often are caught in a plastic world that runs too hard and too fast, and that many times that world means destroyed relationships with everyone they know and love.
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It's funny - when you look at the real A-listers nowadays, look at how many live in and around Hollywood. Most of them live on a ranch in Utah. It's no coincidence these guys get in and get out.
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I think I will be a great president having to do with the military and also having to do with taking care of our vets.
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I never planned my career. I never planned to be president of Harvard. People would have thought I was crazy, probably, at the age of 8 or 10 or 20, if I had said that. So what I would say to people planning their careers is to be ready to improvise. Be ready to follow up on opportunities as they unfold.
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I don't think it should be allowed for people to start working at a young age and not take the time to just be living as themselves in the real world, especially now in this new age of new media and the obsession with celebrity. I think it's a real crime.
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And so one can imagine that in amorous seduction the other is the locus of your secret - the other unknowingly holds that which you will never have the chance to know. (p. 65)
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Figure out where you're going before you go there: he was told that a long time ago.
