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John Updike Quotes

The writers we tend to universally admire, like Beckett, or Kafka, or TS Eliot, are not very prolific.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Admire Like Very Universally Tend

The squares of the periodic times are to each other as the cubes of the mean distances.

Johannes Kepler

Mean Squares Periodic Other Each

A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.

John Churton Collins

Fool Easy Difficult Because He

I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.

Andrew Carnegie

Son Dollar Leave Curse Would Soon

The thing is, we've changed our style but we've never changed the actual roots of what we've done.

Style Roots Done Never Changed Our

It's good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.

Good Help Remember Strangers Forget

Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music.

Music Story You Look Carousel Out

At the time of the Civil War, there were six democracies in the face of the planet. Today, there's 120 and they've been inspired by the American exceptionalism.

Robert Kennedy, Jr.

Today Time War Face American Planet

Some things that work in a comic don't work in a film, and vice versa.

Work Vice Things Film Some Comic

But I certainly made mistakes, for which I regret, I think most human beings in their lifetime make mistakes, mine ended up in two years prison - two very remarkable years from which I learnt a lot.

Mistakes Regret Prison Think Human

But by providing the background picture - the universal situational awareness that we desire - by showing the anomalies, the Space-Based Radar will change the nature of how we do our analysis and our intelligence.

Stephen Cambone

Nature Change Intelligence Picture

I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.

Art Ego Think Create Artists Just

We know television should educate and inform, and I believe it should entertain.

Believe Television Know I Believe

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