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Certain Quotes by John Updike
- ...as all souls are equal before their Maker, a two inch putt counts the same as a 250 yard drive. There is a comedy in…
- Prose should have a flow, the forward momentum of a certain energized weight; it should feel like a voice tumbling in your ear.
- I can't bear to finish things, beyond a certain point they get heavy. There's something so dead about a finished painting.
- What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.
- 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…
- Whatever art offered the men and women of previous eras, what it offers our own, it seems to me, is space - a certain breathing…
- I suppose sequels are inevitable for a writer of a certain age.
More Certain Quotes
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
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- Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is… — Richard Bach
- It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the… — Teresa of Avila
- If you were to ask me if I'd ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I'd have to say… — Luis Bunuel
- I think we can provide common-sense approaches to the issue of illegal guns that are ending up on the streets. We can… — Barack Obama
- You know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations. Like when they're both on fire - they're exactly alike. — Dave Attell