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John Updike Quotes

American - Novelist | March 18, 1932 - January 27, 2009

Baseball skills schizophrenically encompass a pitcher's, a batter's and a fielder's.

Baseball Skills Pitcher Encompass

I was an only child. I needed an alternative to family life - to real life, you could almost say - and cartoons, pictures in a book, the animated movies, seemed to provide it.

Life Family Child Book You Pictures

Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.

Art Shoes Baby Gold You Coat

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

Art Space Spirit Breathing Room

The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors.

Failure Criticism Literature Kind

All love comes from the family.

In any interview, you do say more or less than you mean.

You Say More Mean Interview Than

Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.

Naked Being Going Barefoot Mere

The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.

Marriage First Breath Constraints

Golf's ultimate moral instruction directs us to find within ourselves a pivotal center of enjoyment: relax into a rhythm that fits the hills and swales, and play the shot at hand - not the last one, or the next one, but the one at your feet, in the poison ivy, where you put it.

Relax Feet Golf You Find Play

Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.

Life Religion Ignore Us Get Jobs

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

Life Home Hell American Driving You

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