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Less Quotes by John Updike
- That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real…
- Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet.
- Let us not seek to make it less monstrous, for our own convenience, our own sense of beauty, lest, awakened in one unthinkable hour, we…
- The New England spirit does not seek solutions in a crowd; raw light and solitariness are less dreaded than welcomed as enhancers of our essential…
- People go around mourning the death of God; it's the death of sssin that bothers me. Without ssin, people aren't people any more, they're just…
- In any interview, you do say more or less than you mean.
- A man who reads a book for no particular profit becomes, while he reads, a gentleman, a man of leisure, a dandy of a sort;…
More Less Quotes
- Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- The less government we have the better. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Creation is not a property, which we can rule over at will; or, even less, is the property of only a few:… — Pope Francis
- Take Me Or Leave Me Accept Me Or Walk Away, Love Me Or Hate Me But Dont Make Me Feel Like Less… — Superman
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves… — Bernard Baruch
- One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out… — C.S. Lewis