John Updike Quotes
The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.
John Updike
Quotes to Explore
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Helmet was joined to helmet, and spear to spear, and jewels, baggage, and elephants without number went with them, and you would have said it was a host that none could understand.
Ferdowsi
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When you arrive at a fork in the road, take it.
Yogi Berra
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It's fun to take two topics and mix them into one cartoon.
Walt Handelsman
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The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.
Jack Kevorkian
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Sex and drugs and rock and roll.
Ian Dury
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My father taught me that one of the most important abilities in life is to be able to take the pain and persevere, and for years this lesson had served me well.
Yiannis Chryssomallis
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It is important to appreciate beauty, even when it is evil.
N. K. Jemisin
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You know, there's a great saying in Texas - you've all heard it - all hat and no cattle. Well, after seven years of George Bush, we need a lot less hat and a lot more cattle.
Hillary Clinton
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You only have to believe that you can succeed, that you can be whatever your heart desires, be willing to work for it, and you can have it.
Oprah Winfrey
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You talk as if a god had made the Machine," cried the other. "I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy. Men made it, do not forget that. Great men, but men. The Machine is much, but not everything.
E. M. Forster
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I only know we loved in vain;I only feel - farewell! farewell!
Lord Byron
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The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.
John Updike