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Right Quotes by John Updike
- Think binary. When matter meets antimatter, both vanish, into pure energy. But both existed; I mean, there was a condition we'll call "existence." Think of…
- Movies took you right up to the edge but kept you safe.
- Those running tights the young women wear now, so they look like spacewomen, raspberry red and electric green so tight they show every muscle right…
- Fiction is very greedy. It will take all you know and then some. The first novel I tried to write, I was struck by this…
- You know how it is with fathers, you never escape the idea that maybe after all they're right.
- Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.
- 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…
- If she’d been born at the right time they would have burned her over in Salem.
- There is this quality, in things, of the right way seeming wrong at first.
- I once did something right. I played first-rate basketball. I really did. And after you're first-rate at something, no matter what, it kind of takes…
- Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.
- Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better.
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