John Updike Quotes

In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and subtler ramifications must remain in the dark. An invented figure like Anna Karenina or Emma Bovary emerges fully into the light of understanding, which brings with it identification, sympathy and pity.

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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Investors are sometimes too busy looking for profits to notice where the truth ends and the deception begins.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

TruthLookingBusySometimesBegins

I'm not homophobic in the slightest. I have lots of gay friends.

Michael Bisping

FriendsGayHomophobicLots

I'm attracted to long-legged girls with long arms and a little head.

Alvin Ailey

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I understand people who boo us. It's like going to Broadway show, you pay for your tickets and expect to be entertained. When you're not, you have a right to complain.

Sparky Anderson

PeopleYouUnderstandRightComplain

One of the reasons why people - particularly young people - love action movies is because what they are really looking for is justice.

Steven Seagal

LoveJusticePeopleLookingAction

If you feel very deeply about something, it's not possible to sacrifice your integrity about that.

Trevor Nunn

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I'm satisfied with the way 'The Room' turned out, and I don't want to change anything.

Tommy Wiseau

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If you listen to nature, all the sounds are done in a confident way. I'm trying to do that.

Roscoe Mitchell

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I wanted to be a meteorologist. I wanted to be a marine biologist.

January Jones

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I wasn't always such a great fan of Shakespeare, mind you. I can guess we all at one time had it rammed down our necks at school, which tends to take the edge off it.

Christopher Eccleston

GreatTimeSchoolMindYouDown

It's funny; I actually made poorer decisions when I sobered up then when I was screwed up.

Corey Feldman

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I worked at Barney's selling clothes to lonely, rich white women. Every time I would look down on myself - hating my job, hating my life - I would think, 'It's a character study. Study these people, and you'll have your SNL audition ready in, like, five minutes.'

Brandon Uranowitz

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