Quotes of John Updike - somelinesforyou

“ A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience. ”

- John Updike

“ Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. ”

- John Updike

“ We are most alive when we’re in love. ”

- John Updike

“ We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one. ”

- John Updike

“ Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. ”

- John Updike

“ Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better. ”

- John Updike

“ What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit. ”

- John Updike

“ We’re past the age of heroes and hero kings… Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it’s up to the writer to find ways to make them interesting. ”

- John Updike

“ Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life. ”

- John Updike

“ Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings. ”

- John Updike

“ Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. ”

- John Updike

“ Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. ”

- John Updike

“ You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it. ”

- John Updike

“ The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding. ”

- John Updike

“ Without rain, there would be no life. ”

- John Updike

“ Sex is like money; only too much is enough. ”

- John Updike

“ It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you. ”

- John Updike

“ Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings. ”

- John Updike

“ If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price. ”

- John Updike

“ The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding. ”

- John Updike

“ Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey. ”

- John Updike

“ Not only are selves conditional but they die. Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time? ”

- John Updike

“ Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey. ”

- John Updike

“ Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings. ”

- John Updike

“ What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit. ”

- John Updike

“ What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit. ”

- John Updike

“ Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews. ”

- John Updike

“ When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step aside; we are disavowing the very realm where we exist and where all things precious are kept — the realm of emotion and conscience, of memory and intention and sensation. ”

- John Updike

“ By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved. ”

- John Updike

“ Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five. ”

- John Updike
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