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John Updike Quotes

We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: March 18, 1932 - January 27, 2009

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Daily Great Others Take Sane Our

Utopia is a framework for utopias, a place where people are at liberty to join together voluntarily to pursue and attempt to realize their own vision of the good life in the ideal community but where no one can impose his own utopian vision upon others.

Life Good Community Vision Together

Whether it s the country or city, I never liked the bad guy.

City Bad Country Never Bad Guy Guy

Based on my experience, it's considerably difficult to force a donkey into doing something it perceives to be dangerous for whatever reason.

Maurizio Cattelan

Experience Doing Dangerous Difficult

There have always been hermits: people who want to get away from other humans. Literally, some of the first extant books and poems found in Mesopotamia and China mention people living alone in the woods. It's this primal fascination that exists across all cultures and all times.

Alone People Woods Want Living Get

If I can make people laugh it's like being a good lover.

Good People Laugh I Can Being Like

I think I would cope like anyone copes with any tragedy. I'm sure I would be very upset for a while and then there would come a point where I would either have to stay in this place of darkness and anger, or I'd have to accept that it happened.

Darkness Anger Think Tragedy Place

The outlook for the economy, as always, is highly uncertain.

Economy Always Uncertain Outlook

I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.

Jonathan Lethem

Me Way Write Bored Fiction Read

I can move any crowd.

I Can Crowd Move Any

I don't like my parents; I never will. I didn't cry at either of their funerals. I haven't missed them for five seconds. I didn't - you know, our characters were so at odds with one another right from the beginning. But I do understand them now as human beings, with the understanding of an adult.

Beginning Parents Understanding You

Software options proliferate extremely easily - too easily, in fact - because too many options create tools that can't ever be used intuitively. Intuitive actions confine the detail work to a dedicated part of the brain, leaving the rest of one's mind free to respond with attention and sensitivity to the changing texture of the moment.

Work Moment Mind Brain Detail Rest

I thought that the older I got, that partying would change - and it has - in the way that now I know how to party.

Change Thought Party Know Now Way

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