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First Quotes by John Updike
- "Hit it with the back of your left hand" was the first swing thought I ever heard, brusquely bu not unlovingly put to me by…
- The first breathe of adultery is the freest.
- My father provided; he gathered things to himself and let them fall upon the world; my clothes, my food, my luxurious hopes had fallen to…
- Fiction is very greedy. It will take all you know and then some. The first novel I tried to write, I was struck by this…
- The moment when the finished book or, better yet, a tightly packed carton of finished books arrives on my doorstep is the moment of truth,…
- The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.
- It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits…
- There is this quality, in things, of the right way seeming wrong at first.
- I once did something right. I played first-rate basketball. I really did. And after you're first-rate at something, no matter what, it kind of takes…
- My first ambition was to be an animator for Walt Disney. Then I wanted to be a magazine cartoonist.
- The first author I met socially was Joyce Cary.
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