All men are mortal, and therefore all men are losers; our profoundest loyalty goes out to the failed. — John Updike Copy Share Image
There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't. — John Updike Copy Share Image
There are some women that don't do it for some men. That's why they turn out so many models. — John Updike Copy Share Image
What interests me is why men think of women as witches. It's because they're so fascinating and exasperating, so other. — John Updike Copy Share Image
It's been the same story ever since I can remember, ever since Wilson - the Republicans don't do a thing for the… — John Updike Copy Share Image
What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce. Mark Twain Women are an alien race set down among us. — John Updike Copy Share Image
All love is betrayal, in that it flatters life. The loveless man is best armed. — John Updike Copy Share Image
If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and… — John Updike Copy Share Image
To be a human being is to be in a state of tension between your appetites and your dreams, and the social… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The Englishman is under no constitutional obligation to believe that all men are created equal. The American agony is therefore scarcely intelligible,… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Men emerge pale from the little printing plant at four sharp, ghosts for an instant, blinking, until the outdoor light overcomes the… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Whatever art offered the men and women of previous eras, what it offers our own, it seems to me, is space -… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price of a… — John Updike Copy Share Image
What other sport holds out hope of improvement to a man or a woman over fifty? True, the pros begin to falter… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Baseball is meant to be fun, and not all the solemn money-men in fur-collared greatcoats, not all the scruffy media cameramen and… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Many men are more faithful to their golf partners than to their wives and have stuck with them longer. — John Updike Copy Share Image
It's a man's world, they say; but in its daily textures it is a world created by and for women. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Man is a means for turning things into spirit and turning spirit into things. — John Updike Copy Share Image
I like old men. They can be wonderful bastards because they have nothing to lose. The only people who can be themselves… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I would rather be seated between any two women than any two men at a dinner party. — John Updike Copy Share Image
A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs To the silent wilderness Where the soul need… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Man makes one journey all his living days, Down through the realms of music and of art; Down through the halls of… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Literature gives us models of living human beings who may not agree with us and even be our enemies. D. H. Lawrence… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Life is a roller coaster, you have your ups and downs unless you fall off. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us. — John Updike Copy Share Image
I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip and swirl… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The New England spirit does not seek solutions in a crowd; raw light and solitariness are less dreaded than welcomed as enhancers of our… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I imagine most of that stuff on the information highway is roadkill anyway. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Families, doing everything for each other out of imagined obligation and always getting in each other's way, what a tangle. — John Updike Copy Share Image
“The mind cannot fall asleep as long as it watches itself. Only when the mind moves unwatched and becomes absorbed in images that tug… — John Updike Copy Share Image
In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and subtler ramifications… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Her hair had been going gray as long as he could remember; she bundled it behind in a bun held with hairpins that he… — John Updike Copy Share Image
![“What other sport holds out hope of improvement to a man or a woman over fifty? True, the pros begin to falter at around forty, but it is their putting nerves that go, not their swings. For a duffer like [me], the room for improvement is so vast that three lifetimes could be spent roaming the…” quote by John Updike](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/02c/john-updike-396_bliss_what-other-sport-holds-out-hope-of-impro_1605250.jpg)
