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John Updike Quotes

Books externalise our brains and turn our homes into thinking bodies.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Thinking Turn Brains Books Our

You would not hang out with people that talk to you the way you talk to yourself. So get out of your head! Your feelings! Your feelings are screwing you! I don't care how you feel! I care about what you want! And if you listen to how you feel, when it comes to what you want - you will not get it. Because you will never feel like it.

Yourself People Care Feel You Want

I don't talk about my boyfriend because it's boring.

Suki Waterhouse

Boring Talk Because Boyfriend About

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Children Parents Bad Place Should

I always like to say our shows should be something that, you know, before 10 o'clock, if your kid wanders into the room, they should be able to glance at the TV, watch what's happening, but not quite know what's happening. That's always my standard.

You Know Say Kid Always Room

In my early years, I couldn't find a community. I couldn't find anybody like me. I felt so isolated. There was nothing but shame and loneliness.

Community Loneliness Me Early Find

I'm a regular person with an extraordinary job.

Job Person Extraordinary Regular

The negative side of football. The negative side of our society. People sometimes go to football and bring to it the negative aspects of our society.

Football People Society Negative Go

The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine.

Christopher Lasch

Common Sense Days Left Common Sense

A lot of what Trinidad is about is the feeling of the place, the atmosphere of the place, particularly at night, and the mystery of the forest.

Night Forest Mystery Feeling Place

My trouble is I talk first and think later.

Brittany Murphy

Think Trouble Talk First Later

Pesticides came about after the first world war. Some brainy petrochemical money maker said, 'Hey, that mustard gas worked great on people, maybe we could dilute it down and spray it on our crops to deal with pests.'

Woody Harrelson

Great Money War People World Brainy

Desire suppressed finds its way into other more surreal settings, into dreams.

Dreams Desire Way More Settings

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