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Life Quotes by John Updike
- Without rain, there would be no life.
- Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews.
- Life is a razor, you are always in hot water or a scrape.
- Life is a roller coaster, you have your ups and downs unless you fall off.
- Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end.
- Life is a nacho. It can be yummy-crunchy or squishy-yucky. It just depends on how long it takes for you to start eating it.
- I never made a decision in my life that wasn't one hundred per cent selfish.
- We all begin life as parasites within the mother, and writers begin their existence imitatively, within the body of letters.
- As I get older, my childhood self becomes more accessible to me, but selectively, in images as stylized and suspect as moments remembered from a…
- The heart prefers to move against the grain of circumstance; perversity is the souls very life.
- You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.
- The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at…
- Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
- Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.
- Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.
- Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.
- Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.
- I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to…
- Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.
- ...but with his mother there's no question of liking him they're not even in a way separate people he began in her stomach and if…
- All love is betrayal, in that it flatters life. The loveless man is best armed.
- 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…
- My life is, in a sense, trash. My life is only that of which the residue is my writing.
- The cinema has done more for my spiritual life than the church. My ideas of fame, success and beauty all originate from the big screen.…
- I was an only child. I needed an alternative to family life - to real life, you could almost say - and cartoons, pictures in…
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- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle