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Own Quotes by John Updike
- In asking forgiveness of women for our mythologizing of their bodies, for being unreal about them, we can only appeal to their own sexuality, which…
- 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…
- Writers take words seriously-perha ps the last professional class that does-and they struggle to steer their own through the crosswinds of meddling editors and careless…
- Within your own generation-the same songs, the same wars, the same attitudes toward those wars, the same rules and radio shows in the air-you can…
- I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price of a book or a…
- The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.
- A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
- But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.
- For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do, they are glowing signifiers of our own…
- Whatever art offered the men and women of previous eras, what it offers our own, it seems to me, is space - a certain breathing…
- Museums and bookstores should feel, I think, like vacant lots - places where the demands on us are our own demands, where the spirit can…
- Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness.
- The measure of artistic merit is the length to which a writer is willing to go in following his own compulsions.
- I find in my own writing that only fiction - and rarely, a poem - fully tests me to the kind of limits of what…
- Writers take words seriously-perhaps the last professional class that does-and they struggle to steer their own through the crosswinds of meddling editors and careless typesetters…
More Own Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov