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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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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I listen to music two ways: As a person, you have an instinctive, personal, emotional response. But as a music supervisor, you have a secondary response, which is, 'Will this sit well under dialogue?' 'Can people die to this?' 'Can people kiss to this?'
Alexandra Patsavas
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We believe - we believe that, if we tell the people the truth, that they will act bigger than the pettiness we see in Washington, D.C. We believe it is possible to forge bipartisan compromise, and stand up for our conservative principles.
Chris Christie
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Like all things in the universe, we are destined from birth to diverge. Time is simply the yard-stick of our separation. If we are particles in a sea of distance, exploded from an original whole, then there is a science to our solitude. We are lonely in proportion to our years.
Ian Caldwell
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The two priorities have to find a commonality. That's what this negotiation is about.
Dennis Hastert
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When a felon s not engaged in his employment, Or maturing his felonious little plans, His capacity for innocent enjoyment Is just as great as any honest mans.
W. S. Gilbert
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The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.
John Updike
