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Quotes By John Updike

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone. by John Updike
John Updike
alone
What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit. by John Updike
John Updike
art
I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone. by John Updike
John Updike
alone
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. by John Updike
John Updike
government
Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went. by John Updike
John Updike
home
We are most alive when we're in love. by John Updike
John Updike
love
The first breath of adultery is the freest after it, constraints aping marriage develop. by John Updike
John Updike
marriage
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience. by John Updike
John Updike
patience
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. by John Updike
John Updike
poetry
Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them. by John Updike
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respect
Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life. by John Updike
John Updike
religion
The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion. by John Updike
John Updike
religion
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