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John Updike Quotes

My reading as a child was lazy and cowardly, and it is yet. I was afraid of encountering, in a book, something I didn't want to know.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Child Book Reading Know Lazy Want

We get paid for bringing value to the market place.

Value Place Paid Get Market

If I care about poverty, I have to care a lot about investments in the private sector. The private sector creates the vast majority of jobs in the world, and social protection only goes so far.

World Care Poverty Protection Social

'Lost' was a phenomenon, like Elvis.

Lost Like Phenomenon Elvis

The red directors were one of the main political forces. Another force was the former Soviet ministers who lost everything because of the transformation of the Soviet Union to Russia.

Anatoly Chubais

Red Transformation Political Lost

I was there at the birth of my son and had the extraordinary feeling when I first saw him of thinking this was the first person I would willingly die for. I had the same strong feelings when my daughter was born.

Son Daughter Strong Thinking Die

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Patience Sweet Fruit Bitter

When turkeys mate they think of swans.

Think Turkeys Mate Swans

Social conservatives are very focused on strengthening the family, and I think they are right to do so. One of the worst blind spots of the Left has been its reluctance to say that marriage matters for children.

Family Marriage Children Think Blind

The successful pilots succeeded because they did not open fire until they were close to the target.

Fire Target Open Successful Because

Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves.

David Strathairn

Culture Learn Literature Tell Film

I think it affected me physically and emotionally, yes. I did have my ups and downs, but I actually had more ups and downs after the shots were finished and she was pregnant because of the reality of being pregnant with twins.

Me Think Ups And Downs Reality She

It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

Life Saying Mouth Common Everybody

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