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John Updike Quotes: "Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot."

Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot.



John Updike Quotes: "People go around mourning the death of God; it's the death of sssin that bothers me. Without ssin, people aren't people any more, they're just ssoul-less sheep."

People go around mourning the death of God; it's the death of sssin that bothers me. Without ssin, people aren't people any more, they're just ssoul-less sheep.




John Updike Quotes: "Life is a roller coaster, you have your ups and downs unless you fall off."

Life is a roller coaster, you have your ups and downs unless you fall off.



John Updike Quotes: "Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life."

Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.




John Updike Quotes: "Hoping to fashion a mirror, the lover doth polish the face of his beloved until he produces a skull."

Hoping to fashion a mirror, the lover doth polish the face of his beloved until he produces a skull.



John Updike Quotes: "All men are mortal, and therefore all men are losers; our profoundest loyalty goes out to the failed."

All men are mortal, and therefore all men are losers; our profoundest loyalty goes out to the failed.



John Updike Quotes: "The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop."

The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.




John Updike Quotes: "School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you."

School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.



John Updike Quotes: "Man is a means for turning things into spirit and turning spirit into things."

Man is a means for turning things into spirit and turning spirit into things.



John Updike Quotes: "Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man."

Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.



John Updike Quotes: "America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy."

America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.



John Updike Quotes: "Pressed, I would define spirituality as the shadow of light humanity casts as it moves through the darkness of everything that can be explained."

Pressed, I would define spirituality as the shadow of light humanity casts as it moves through the darkness of everything that can be explained.




John Updike Quotes: "Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad, hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us."

Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad, hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us.



John Updike Quotes: "A photograph offers us a glimpse into the abyss of time."

A photograph offers us a glimpse into the abyss of time.



John Updike Quotes: "The scrape and snap of Keds on loose alley pebbles seems to catapult their voices high into the moist March air blue above the wires."

The scrape and snap of Keds on loose alley pebbles seems to catapult their voices high into the moist March air blue above the wires.



John Updike Quotes: "To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client."

To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client.



John Updike Quotes: "The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things."

The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things.



John Updike Quotes: "I'm somewhat shy about the brutal facts of being a carnivore. I don't like meat to look like animals. I prefer it in the form of sausages, hamburger and meat loaf, far removed from the living thing."

I'm somewhat shy about the brutal facts of being a carnivore. I don't like meat to look like animals. I prefer it in the form of sausages, hamburger and meat loaf, far removed from the living thing.



John Updike Quotes: "Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art."

Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.



John Updike Quotes: "When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas."

When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.



John Updike Quotes: "At last, small witches, goblins, hags, And pirates armed with paper bags Their costumes hinged on safety pins, Go haunt a night of pumpkin grins."

At last, small witches, goblins, hags, And pirates armed with paper bags Their costumes hinged on safety pins, Go haunt a night of pumpkin grins.



John Updike Quotes: "Do what the heart commands. The heart is our only guide."

Do what the heart commands. The heart is our only guide.



John Updike Quotes: "If you're telling me I'm not mature, that's one thing I don't cry over since as far as I can make out it's the same thing as being dead."

If you're telling me I'm not mature, that's one thing I don't cry over since as far as I can make out it's the same thing as being dead.



John Updike Quotes: "Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading."

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.



John Updike Quotes: "Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want."

Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want.



John Updike Quotes: "An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause."

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.



John Updike Quotes: "Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea."

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.



John Updike Quotes: "Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five."

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.



John Updike Quotes: "Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency."

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.



John Updike Quotes: "Yes, there is a ton of information on the web, but much of it is egregiously inaccurate, unedited, unattributed and juvenile."

Yes, there is a ton of information on the web, but much of it is egregiously inaccurate, unedited, unattributed and juvenile.



John Updike Quotes: "There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes."

There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes.



John Updike Quotes: "There is always a chance of failure, of producing something totally unnecessary. But I guess that chance of failure is what makes tightrope walking, race-car driving."

There is always a chance of failure, of producing something totally unnecessary. But I guess that chance of failure is what makes tightrope walking, race-car driving.



John Updike Quotes: "Sun and moon, sun and moon, time goes."

Sun and moon, sun and moon, time goes.



John Updike Quotes: "My only duty was to describe reality as it had come to me-to give the mundane its beautiful due."

My only duty was to describe reality as it had come to me-to give the mundane its beautiful due.



John Updike Quotes: "I can't bear to finish things, beyond a certain point they get heavy. There's something so dead about a finished painting."

I can't bear to finish things, beyond a certain point they get heavy. There's something so dead about a finished painting.



John Updike Quotes: "Faith is not so much a binary pole as a quantum state, which tends to indeterminacy when closely examined."

Faith is not so much a binary pole as a quantum state, which tends to indeterminacy when closely examined.



John Updike Quotes: "Is not the decisive difference between comedy and tragedy that tragedy denies us another chance?"

Is not the decisive difference between comedy and tragedy that tragedy denies us another chance?



John Updike Quotes: "The stripped and shapely Maple grieves The ghosts of her Departed leaves. The ground is hard, As hard as stone. The year is old, The birds are flown."

The stripped and shapely Maple grieves The ghosts of her Departed leaves. The ground is hard, As hard as stone. The year is old, The birds are flown.



John Updike Quotes: "Women are an alien race set down among us."

Women are an alien race set down among us.



John Updike Quotes: "The heart prefers to move against the grain of circumstance; perversity is the souls very life."

The heart prefers to move against the grain of circumstance; perversity is the souls very life.



John Updike Quotes: "There is this quality, in things, of the right way seeming wrong at first."

There is this quality, in things, of the right way seeming wrong at first.



John Updike Quotes: "I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone."

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.



John Updike Quotes: "In all the green world nothing feels as good as a woman's good nature."

In all the green world nothing feels as good as a woman's good nature.



John Updike Quotes: "The literary scene is a kind of Medusa’s raft, small and sinking, and one’s instinct when a newcomer tries to clamber aboard is to step on his fingers."

The literary scene is a kind of Medusa’s raft, small and sinking, and one’s instinct when a newcomer tries to clamber aboard is to step on his fingers.



John Updike Quotes: "From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few."

From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.



John Updike Quotes: "Movies took you right up to the edge but kept you safe."

Movies took you right up to the edge but kept you safe.



John Updike Quotes: "There are some women that don't do it for some men. That's why they turn out so many models."

There are some women that don't do it for some men. That's why they turn out so many models.



John Updike Quotes: "Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn."

Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.



John Updike Quotes: "Hemingway describes literary New York as a bottle full of tapeworms trying to feed on each other."

Hemingway describes literary New York as a bottle full of tapeworms trying to feed on each other.