John Updike Quotes

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

John Updike

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FailureCriticismLiteratureKind

If you find someone who agrees with you 80 percent of the time that is your friend not your enemy.

John Ensign

FriendTimeSomeoneYouFindEnemy

Just because people think politically different to you doesn't mean they're inhuman.

John Lydon

PeopleThinkYouJust BecauseMean

If one suffers we all suffer. Togetherness is strength. Courage.

Jean-Bertrand Aristide

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Each industry in a region should develop a playbook that expands and details the strategy and tactics of how to build a scalable startup.

Steve Blank

DetailsStrategyBuildIndustryHow

The real cure for what ails our health care system today is less government and more freedom.

Steve Forbes

TodayFreedomHealthGovernmentCare

Just because the boogeyman of the Soviet Union doesn't exist anymore, it doesn't mean the world is living angelically.

Rod Lurie

WorldJust BecauseLivingMeanExist

I'm always nervous. A classy comedian is full of self-doubt disguised with an air of false confidence. If there isn't self-doubt, you seem aggressive.

Ronnie Corbett

ConfidenceYouClassyNervousAir

The press may hate me, and I know my battles with them are not over, but that doesn't matter.

Michel Houellebecq

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I started out in a two-room apartment in Brooklyn and thought, 'Never again.'

Judy Sheindlin

ThoughtBrooklynNeverOutApartment

No Child Left Behind's fourth-grade gains aren't learning gains, they're testing gains. That's why they don't last. The law is a distraction from things that really count.

Jonathan Kozol

LearningChildLawWhyCountLeft

I would like to keep working forever. As long as they will have me.

Diana Rigg

MeLongWillForeverKeepWorking

There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.

Denis Diderot

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