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John Updike Quotes

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

By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Time Partnership By The Time

Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.

Change Mirror Art People Facts Know

I know more about what it's like to be elderly and infirm and kind of stupid, the way you get forgetful, but on the other hand I'm a littler, wiser, dare we say? The word 'wisdom' has kind of faded out of our vocabulary, but yeah, I'm a little wiser.

Wisdom Stupid You Know Kind Hand

When you sit at your desk, if you're lucky, there's a moment when you feel empowered to be someone or something else, to leap into another skin.

Moment Feel Someone You Skin Lucky

My interest generally is the hidden Americans; the ones who live far away from the headlines.

Live Far Away Hidden Away Interest

My life is, in a sense, trash. My life is only that of which the residue is my writing.

Life Writing My Life Trash Sense

My last vivid boyhood fright from books came when I was 15; I was visiting my uncle and aunt in Greenwich, and, emboldened by my success with 'The Waste Land,' I opened their copy of 'Ulysses.' The whiff of death off those remorseless, closely written pages overpowered me. So: back to soluble mysteries, and jokes that were not cosmic.

Success Death Me Back Uncle Copy

I love Shillington not as one loves Capri or New York, because they are special, but as one loves one's own body and consciousness, because they are synonymous with being.

Love New York Body New Special Own

Sometimes it seems the whole purpose of pets is to bring death into the house.

Death Purpose House Sometimes Bring

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

Creative Better Doing Right Activity

Belief, like love, must be voluntary.

Love Belief Must Like Voluntary

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

Nature Dreams True Without Us Come

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