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Beautiful Quotes by John Updike
- I must go to Nature disarmed of perspective and stretch myself like a large transparent canvas upon her in the hope that, my submission being…
- My only duty was to describe reality as it had come to me-to give the mundane its beautiful due.
- Phyllis explained to him, trying to give of her deeper self, 'Don't you find it so beautiful, math? Like an endless sheet of gold chains,…
- My attempt has been really to, beyond making a record of contemporary life, which is what you inevitably do, is trying to make beautiful books…
- Arabic is very twisting, very beautiful. The call to prayer is quite haunting; it almost makes you a believer on the spot.
More Beautiful Quotes
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. — Matthew Arnold
- People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure. — David Attenborough
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear. — John James Audubon
- I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of… — Saint Augustine
- Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for… — Marcus Aurelius
- Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I've changed my mind about a lot… — Paul Auster
- Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. — Diane Ackerman
- It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between. — Diane Ackerman