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Kept Quotes by John Updike
- Dream golf is simply golf played on another course. We chip from glass tables onto moving stairways; we swing in a straightjacket, through masses of…
- When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step aside;…
- Movies took you right up to the edge but kept you safe.
- Our artistic heroes tend to be those self-exercisers, like Picasso, and Nabokov, and Wallace Stevens, who rather defiantly kept playing past dark.
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- Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business.… — Mary Astell
- A man should be upright, not be kept upright. — Marcus Aurelius
- A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds. — Teresa of Avila
- Letter writing was clearly important to Reagan. Even as president he kept dashing off letters to friends, pen pals, media people, statesmen,… — Russell Baker
- '3:10 to Yuma' was one that I just kept on talking and thinking about after reading it. And I think the reason… — Christian Bale
- All I wanted to do was ride skateboards - I wanted to be a professional skateboarder. But I had this problem. I… — Travis Barker
- I was told once if I kept breaking things on my legs, that I wasn't going to be able to walk soon,… — Travis Barker
- When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior. — Simone de Beauvoir
- We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much? — Samuel Beckett
- I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control. — Alan Bennett
- I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of… — Aneurin Bevan