Quotes of John Updike

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It rots a writer's brain, it cretinises you. You say the same thing again and again, and when you do that happily you're well on the way to being a cretin. Or a politician.

- John Updike

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“ Love is like a brick. You can build a house, or you can sink a dead body. ”

- Lady Gaga

“ If I love you more than you love me, I’m as good as dead. Yet I can’t make myself take it back. I can’t just walk away from you, because every time you pass by me without smiling, without touching my hand, or at least making eye contact, it feels like I’m dying inside. ”

- Rachel Vincent

“ True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the wellbeing of one's companion. ”

- Gordon B. Hinckley

“ A bad attitude is like a flat tire, you can’t get very far until you change it. ”

- Unknown

“ It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object or its love. ”

- Sigmund Freud

“ I do love nothing in the world so well as you is not that strange? ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Do I care about pleasure? Yes. But I don't believe in happiness. ”

- Tatiana Vedenska

“ The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire, the size of your dream and how you handle disappointment along the way. ”

- Robert Kiyosaki

“ Live every day like it’s your last. ”

- Unknown

“ In meetings philosophy might work, on the field practicality works. ”

- Amit Kalantri

“ Love cannot be hidden. It even shines in the darkest places." ~ Carla Olson Gade, The Shadow Catcher's Daughter ”

- Carla Olson Gade

“ Her smile was innocent and naive as if she didn’t know anything other than to love and be kind to others. ”

- Mariyam Hasnain

“ Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ I spend most nights at home falling in love with the idea of you. ”

- Michael Faudet

“ Gratitude is not love. Don’t mix the two because they are not the same. ”

- Frank Matobo

“ There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge. ”

- Banksy

“ Though lovers be lost love shall not. ”

- Dylan Thomas

“ Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. ”

- Joan Crawford

“ In the waltz of the leaves in the air In the features of the playful clouds In the nostalgia carried by the wind In Paris alone, I save your love (fragment from Your presence “partout”, chapter Hope) ”

- Claudia Pavel

“ I was blind and heart broken and didn't want to do anything and Gus burst into my room and shouted, "I have wonderful news!" And I was like, "I don't really want to hear wonderful news right now," and Gus said, "This is wonderful news you want to hear," and I asked him, "Fine, what is it?" and he said, "You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet! ”

- John Green

“ Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread: remade all the time, made new. ”

- Og Mandino

“ Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process. ”

- Harold Geneen

“ I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- John Updike

“ Where you go, I shall go; where you die, I shall die, and there will I be buried. ”

- Rosamund Hodge