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New Quotes by John Updike
- The breezes taste Of apple peel. The air is full Of smells to feel- Ripe fruit, old footballs, Burning brush, New books, erasers, Chalk, and…
- There's always something new by looking at the same thing over and over.
- Hemingway describes literary New York as a bottle full of tapeworms trying to feed on each other.
- 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…
- New York is of course many cities, and an exile does not return to the one he left.
- Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by…
- When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.
- There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes.
- The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.
- The world keeps ending but new people too dumb to know it keep showing up as if the fun's just started.
- There should always be something gratuitous about art, just as there seems to be, according to the new-wave cosmologists, something gratuitous about the universe.
- New York is a city with virtually no habitable public space - only private spaces expensively maintained within the general disaster.
- My complaint, as an exile who once loved New York and who likes to return a half-dozen times a year, is not that it plays…
- New York, like the Soviet Union, has this universal usefulness: It makes you glad you live elsewhere.
More New Quotes
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship. — Julian Assange
- Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the… — Paul Auster
- The alliance should agree... to an effective NATO role against the new threats presented by international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. — Jose Maria Aznar
- In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — Karen Armstrong
- Research is creating new knowledge. — Neil Armstrong
- I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium. — Neil Armstrong
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
- The most extraordinary thing about trying to piece together the missing links in the evolutionary story is that when you do find… — David Attenborough
- I think every age lives in a blend of technology so there's always older ones mixed in with newer ones, and when… — Margaret Atwood
- Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart. — Kevyn Aucoin