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John Updike Quotes

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Alone Early Late Dare Go Bloom

You have to support people who want to do weird, different, fun stuff. Otherwise, it'll get very homogenous.

Fun Support People Weird You Want

Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.

Time Thinking End Earth Will May

In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy.

Democracy Place Nation Taken After

I run with music all the time. I cannot run without my iPod. I have everything. Teddy Pendergrass. Luther Van Dross. Michael Jackson. Outkast. If an Usher song comes on and it's fast, I go fast.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Music Time Song Fast Go Run

Two things are desired in order that intercourse may be had: First, that a minister or agent be allowed to reside at the capital. Second, that commerce between different countries be freely allowed.

Townsend Harris

First Two Order Things May Commerce

And Big Night, I think by the end the brothers find that balance, when they touch each other on the shoulder over breakfast and it's understood that what should never have driven them apart almost drove them apart. I think that's a true moment.

Moment Balance Breakfast Night Think

The plants are principally kept in large pots arranged in rows along the sides of narrow paved walks, with the houses of the gardeners at the entrance through which the visitors pass to the gardens.

Plants Sides Through Pass Along

L.A. is like an oil rig. It's not pretty. It's awful. The air is bad, the view is bad, the people are bad.

Robert Ben Garant

People View Bad Oil Air Pretty

More people need to understand the games secular liberals play. Here's one rule-of-thumb: No matter how bad a story sounds - particularly if it sounds bad - recognize the pattern of defamation.

People Story Bad Play Understand

I have licked cancer, and I'm actually thinking of several career options.

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

Thinking Career Cancer Options

The Internet is about giving the consumer exactly what they want, whether there's an audience of one or 1,000 or 10,000, and then figuring out how to make money on it later.

Jason Calacanis

Money Internet Giving Want Out How

Drums were my first instrument.

First Drums Instrument Were

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