John Updike Quotes

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.

John Updike

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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With increasing age, dullness of mind and heart sets in.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

AgeHeartMindSetsDullness

I don't want to bust my butt for the rest of my life, like my parents.

Jeremy London

LifeParentsRestMy LifeWantButt

One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.

Anatole France

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You can't charge somebody with something they have not done.

Robert J. Bentley

YouDoneSomethingChargeSomebody

My comedy does not come from a place of deep cynicism, and I tend to play characters who are naive in some way.

Anna Faris

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Fighting at home does bring pressure - of course it does. But I've always thrived on that.

Michael Bisping

HomePressureFightingAlwaysBring

I see this fella built like a barn door... and there's all these fox hunters, who didn't like me, screaming and shouting and as I walked past him I looked at him and he hit me with something.

John Prescott

PastMeDoorFoxHimSee

Female friendships have sustained me from my earliest days as a child.

Amanda de Cadenet

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I don't take things for granted, because everything feels more fragile. It's made me wonder about mortality and how long you've got somebody in the world. I'm more fearful than I used to be.

Robin Gibb

MeWorldLongYouWonderMore

I think about culture and values as curbs on a highway. When the curbs are high enough, a vehicle can veer to the left or right, but the curbs keep the car on the road. It is the CEO's job to build those curbs as high as possible.

Ron Williams

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It certainly must help us if we recognize that it is the presence of the Holy Spirit which creates a unity which we can never create.

Roland Allen

UnityHelpCreateSpiritNeverUs

Research can be a boon to a novelist - there are more things in heaven and Earth than can be dreamt of in a single writer's philosophy - or it can become a hindrance, a thick layer of algae that weighs down the storytelling.

Michelle Dean

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