John Updike Quotes

Memory has a spottiness, as if the film was sprinkled with developer instead of immersed in it.

John Updike

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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MemoryFilmImmersedDeveloper

I've never seen a man in my life I wanted to marry.

Jimmy Swaggart

LifeManMy LifeNeverSeenMarry

I'm happy that just about on every other show there's a Latino somewhere present, and we're not all the cooks anymore.

Jimmy Smits

HappyPresentLatinoSomewhereJust

No matter what vision one has of South Africa, the first thing that must be done is to destroy racism.

Joe Slovo

VisionRacismDoneAfricaMatter

Fans of football and fans of nationhood have a similar zeal. Read the fanzines: their contributors could find a needle-sized diss in a haystack of compliments, and their passions are fundamentalist.

Andrew O'Hagan

FootballFindComplimentsFansZeal

You know what an effective deterrent to crime is? Jail! And do you know what kind of criminal penalty actually makes people think twice about committing crimes the next time? The kind that actually comes out of some individual's pocket, not fines that come out of the corporate kitty.

Matt Taibbi

TimePeopleThinkYouKnowKind

I don't necessarily like anniversaries that much.

Jean-Michel Jarre

LikeMuchNecessarily

Even when I interact or meet my fans during events, I let them know of my actual Twitter handle so that they are not taken advantage of by anybody online pretending to be me.

Rithvik Dhanjani

MeKnowMeetEventsPretendingFans

An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

Roald Dahl

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My husband will tell you one of the most frequent questions he gets from world leaders is, 'How's your wife's garden?'

Michelle Obama

WifeWorldHusbandQuestionsYou

My stockbroker asked me something important today: paper or plastic?

Jay Leno

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There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been. The great traditional buildings of the past, the villages and tents and temples in which man feels at home, have always been made by people who were very close to the center of this way.

Christopher Alexander

HomeTodayGreatPastManPeople

When I start training, I get very serious and focused about it. I probably train 4-5 days a week, and I eat probably eat 5-8 small meals a day to keep my metabolism going.

Ciara

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