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Second Quotes by John Updike
- I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip and swirl like…
- An old essay by John Updike begins, 'We live in an era of gratuitous inventions and negative improvements.' That language is general and abstract, near…
- 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…
- 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…
- A seventeenth-century house can be recognized by its steep roof, massive central chimney and utter porchlessness. Some of those houses have a second-story overhang, emphasizing…
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- Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases. — Norman Ralph Augustine
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