Quotes of John Updike

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Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

- John Updike

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“ We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love. ”

- Mother Teresa

“ Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing you can do is keep your mind young. ”

- Mark Twain

“ It takes courage to be honest and to work, while others play, cheat, sponge like parasites or are idle. There is value in the work that you choose to do, and you are an innately valuable person. ”

- Zita Steele

“ I was watching the first raindrops falling down on the porous ground. Each drop disappeared eagerly into the sand without any hesitations. The Earth, in turn, embraced it warmly like it has gotten back something precious that once belonged to it. I, somehow, thought that this particular image suited more our story than anything else ”

- Ismaaciil C. Ubax

“ FORGET SWAG, I'VE GOT SHAKARA', ”

- Genereux Philip

“ In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look deep into your heart where it spreads its roots, the answer, and ask yourself, must I write? ”

- Rainer Maria Rilke

“ I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Love comforteth like sunshine after rain. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ To be human is to be broken and broken is its own kind of beautiful. ”

- robert m drake

“ An early. morning walk is a blessing for the whole day. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ The past can't hurt you anymore. Not unless you let it. They made you into a victim, Evey. They made you into a statistic. But, that's not the real you. That's not who you are inside. ”

- Alan Moore

“ If you don't run your own life, somebody else will. ”

- John Atkinson

“ My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ A heart, once stolen, can never be taken back. ”

- Marissa Meyer

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

- William Shakespeare

“ Every day is your entire life. ”

- Mike Stagnitta

“ 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

“ A lack of clarity could put the brakes on any journey to success. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ Anything that you learn becomes your wealth, a wealth that cannot be taken away from you; whether you learn it in a building called school or in the school of life. To learn something new is a timeless pleasure and a valuable treasure. And not all things that you learn are taught to you, but many things that you learn you realize you have taught yourself. ”

- C. JoyBell C.

“ The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being. ”

- Tom Robbins

“ To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others. ”

- Anne Sophie Swetchine

“ Love is blind, they say–but isn’t it more that love makes us see too much? Isn’t it more that love floods our brain with sights and sounds, so that everything looks bigger, brighter, more lovely than ever before? ”

- Susan Fletcher Eve Green

“ When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do. ”

- RuPaul

“ Live your life, no matter what that life is. ”

- Corey Taylor