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Like Quotes by John Updike
- Sex is like money; only too much is enough.
- I think books should have secrets, like people do.
- 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…
- Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.
- Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.
- A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent…
- In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and subtler ramifications must…
- The writers we tend to universally admire, like Beckett, or Kafka, or TS Eliot, are not very prolific.
- Our artistic heroes tend to be those self-exercisers, like Picasso, and Nabokov, and Wallace Stevens, who rather defiantly kept playing past dark.
- Belief, like love, must be voluntary.
- A seventeenth-century house tends to be short on frills like hallways and closets; you must improvise.
- New York, like the Soviet Union, has this universal usefulness: It makes you glad you live elsewhere.
- I like short stories.
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