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John Updike Quotes

Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.

John Updike

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Morning Day Progress Me Through

All our wealth and all our export power has also come by the fact that other nations were willing to see us. This is very important.

Joe Kaeser

Power Wealth Important See Us Come

In a marriage, in any long-term relationship, not to bother with lying. There's no time for that. If you have any sort of secret life, it will come back to haunt you.

Andy Garcia

Life Marriage Relationship Time You

Every country has their problems.

John Malkovich

Problems Country Every

Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

John Ruskin

Love Live Happiness Hope Man True

I tune it all out because if I let other people's stress get to me, then I stress myself out more than I need to.

Simone Biles

Myself Stress People Me More Need

Racial distinctions should not be rejected; they should be embraced.

Tony Evans

Racial Should Rejected Distinctions

One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee.

Robyn Hitchcock

Ideas Doing Want Committee Behind

We must engage with China to try and put as much pressure on North Korea as possible.

Lois Frankel

Pressure Possible Try Engage China

I believe that the dissolution of a marriage comes about by the breaking down of self-esteem.

Dixie Carter

Marriage Believe Down I Believe

I find the idea of vigilante justice very attractive. I like the idea that the murderer decides that this person has gone too far, and nothing will happen to him unless she does something to stop him.

Donna Leon

Justice Find Stop Person Nothing

We've accumulated a lot of things over the years and many things from our grandmother. Hopefully it'll be all right. I really don't want to cry, but I can't help it.

Dorothy Fields

Help Cry Want Grandmother Right Our

Because the theory of quantum mechanics could explain all of chemistry and the various properties of substances, it was a tremendous success. But still there was the problem of the interaction of light and matter.

Richard P. Feynman

Success Light Problem Chemistry