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John Updike Quotes

A house, having been willfully purchased and furnished, tells us more than a body, and its description is a foremost resource of the art of fiction.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Art Body House More Fiction Us

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

Fear Alone Great Experience War Me

It's easy to talk to people over the Web, but it's not very easy to trigger transactions. That's the thing we set out to fix with Stripe.

People Easy Talk Fix Over Out

Actually, that's one of the things I was thinking about writing a story about me, loosely based or autobiographical. I just don't want to be like some people that are in their twenties and writing autobiographies.

Matthew McGrory

People Me Writing Story Thinking

If you are an atheist as I am, Shakespeare can be your ideal. Everything is within Shakespeare, especially in his 10 greatest plays. They have life, meaning, understanding, the whole lot.

Life I Am Understanding Meaning You

It is a fact that, if I single out Germany, our rate of growth is too low and we have very high unemployment.

Growth Single Out High Unemployment

I invented a sweater so small, so close to the body, that Women's Wear Daily nicknamed it 'The Poor Boy Sweater' and consecrated me queen of knitwear.

Women Daily Queen Me Small Body

A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.

Dreams Test Hard Real Pleasure Joys

When they told me I couldn't sit on the Senate floor with an iPad - that the technology wasn't even permitted - I breathed deep and knew that I was going to have to start pushing.

Technology Me Start Deep Floor Sit

I'm an American businessman. And I'm a very practical guy. I've supported a lot of different people.

Anthony Scaramucci

People American Different People Guy

Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.

William J. Clinton

Responsibility Country More Take Us

The profoundly 'atomic' character of the universe is visible in everyday experience, in raindrops and grains of sand, in the hosts of the living, and the multitude of stars; even in the ashes of the dead.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Stars Character Experience Universe

The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers.

Genius Attention Desire Ability Turn

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