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Me Quotes by John Updike
- Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic un-interestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity of…
- What other sport holds out hope of improvement to a man or a woman over fifty? True, the pros begin to falter at around forty,…
- "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…
- I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
- The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the…
- If you're telling me I'm not mature, that's one thing I don't cry over since as far as I can make out it's the same…
- My only duty was to describe reality as it had come to me-to give the mundane its beautiful due.
- Of nothing but me I sing, lacking another song.
- In general, the churches, visited by me often on weekdays... bore for me the same relation to God that billboards did to Coca-Cola; they promoted…
- 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 essence of government is concern for the widest possible public interest; the essence of the humanities, it seems to me, is private study, thought,…
- 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…
- I would especially like to re-court the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled…
- Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of…
- But it seems to me that once you begin a gesture it's fatal not to go through with it.
- Whatever art offered the men and women of previous eras, what it offers our own, it seems to me, is space - a certain breathing…
- 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…
- There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me; but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel, they…
- And there was, in those Ipswich years, for me at least, a raw educational component; though I used to score well in academic tests, I…
- I find in my own writing that only fiction - and rarely, a poem - fully tests me to the kind of limits of what…
- The miracle of turning inklings into thoughts and thoughts into words and words into metal and print and ink never palls for me.
- Perhaps I have written fiction because everything unambiguously expressed seems somehow crass to me; and when the subject is myself, I want to jeer and…
- Harvard has enough panegyrists without me.
- Fiction is burdened for me with a sense of duty.
- For many years, I read mystery novels for relaxation. But my tastes were too narrow - and, having read all of Agatha Christie and John…
More Me Quotes
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale